Great Wigborough / Wicghebga / Wighebga
Results: 7 records
B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil - 4
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1100802035_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B02: design element - motifs - floral - rosette
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B04: symbol - heart
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover are visible through the changel screen, at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11659WIG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [basin and upper half of stem only] [composite font], Late Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Stephen, Great Wigborough
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17545364
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen
Church Address: Church Ln, Great Wigborough, Colchester CO5 7RL, United Kingdom
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B1026, 12 km SSW of Colchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chalmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Winstree [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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There are five entries for [Great and Little] Wigborough [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/great-and-little-wigborough/] [accessed 23 June 2025], none of which mentions priest or church in it. Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl with moulded upper and lower edges, panelled sides, four with quatrefoils enclosing blank shields, two with roses, the others with a pair of feathers and heart respectively, each with a scroll, buttressed stem, 15th-century, lower part of stem and the base modern." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], bowl with panels filled by shields in quatrefoils or rosettes." Bettley & Pevsner (2007) add "a heart, and feathers" to the previous edition's description.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: yes
Notes: crown-shaped base with slim tower on top, some openwork; counterweight?
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 432
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 3: 134
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 214