Great Stambridge / Stambridge Magna
Results: 9 records
B05: design element - motifs - floral - flower - 8-petal - in a quatrefoil
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
B06: symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: "with four bars" [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
B07: symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: "three pierced molets and a border" [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church interior - plan
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11656STA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints, Great Stambridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17532576
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & All Saints
Church Address: Stambridge Rd, Rochford SS4 2AP, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1702 530621
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 2-3 km NE of Rochford, about 6 km NNE of Southend-on-Sea
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chalmsford
Font Notes:
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There is a drawing of this font done in 1851 by E. King in the Essex Record Office [ref. I/Mp 325/[http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/] [accessed 20 September 2010]. Noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: [...] octagonal bowl with concave sides, one blank, the others each with a quatrefoiled circle enclosing (a) a four-leafed flower, (b) shield with fleur-de-lis, (c) a four-leafed rose, (d) shield with the letter W mounted by a crown, (e)eight-leafed flower, (f) shield with four bars, (g) shield with three pierced molets and a border; moulded under-edge and hollow-chamfered base, late 15th-century." In Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular] with concave sides and quatrefoiled panels with shields, etc."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 732
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 4: xliii, 58 and pl. between pp. xlii-xliii
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 208