Great Tey
Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
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Results: 7 records
B01: symbol - shield - blank - in an octafoil - in a circle - 4?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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B02: symbol - shield - in an octafoil - in a square - 4?
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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BU01: head
Scene Description: some defaced or missing; unknown whether human or not [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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UB01: design element - motifs - tracery
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of church interior - nave - looking southwest
Scene Description: into the west end of the south aisle, where the font is located
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 11657TEY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Barnabas
Church Patron Saints: St. Barnabas [aka Barnabus, Bernabé]
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located sanwiched between the A1124 to the N, and the A120 to the S, 10 km W of Colchester [51° 54′ 0″ N, 0° 45′ 0″ E 51.9, 0.75] [Diocese of Chelmsford]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font.
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl, with quatrefoiled and octofoiled panels, flowers and defaced heads carved on underside, traceried panels on stem, early 15th-century." In Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with shields in circles or quatrefoils." [NB: the panels are actually octafoils inscribed in circles or squares -- some of the heads/faces of the underbowl have been completely hacked off]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal with moulded sides and top; knob handle; appears modern
REFERENCES
Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976