Great Wigborough

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Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008

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B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil - 4

[cf. Font notes]
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

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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

B03: symbol - feather - 2 - in a quatrefoil

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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B04: symbol - heart

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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

B05: design element - motifs - scroll

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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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

the font and cover are visible through the changel screen, at the west end of the nave
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

FontID: 11659WIG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Stephen
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B1026, 12 km SSW of Colchester [Diocese of Chelmsford]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century [basin and upper half of stem only] [composite font], Late Medieval
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:
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.

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
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