Halstead No. 1 / Halsteda
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2013
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 1999 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3279396] [accessed 6 March 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2013
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 1999 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3279396] [accessed 6 March 2018]
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symbol - shield - coat of arms - Peyton - in an octafoil - cusped octafoil
Scene Description: "a cross engrailed with a molet in the quarter" [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2013
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 1999 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3279396] [accessed 6 March 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
design element - motifs - floral - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2013
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 1999 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3279396] [accessed 6 March 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robin Webster, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 December 2013 by Robin Webster [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3792423] [accessed 6 March 2018]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrew Hill, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 December 2009 by Andrew Hill [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1604024] [accessed 6 March 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery
Scene Description: a varied shapes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2013
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 1999 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3279396] [accessed 6 March 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11660HAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Parsonage Street, Halstead CO9 2LD, UK -- Tel.: (01787) 478471
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A131, about 10 km NE of Braintree
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Hinckford
Font Notes:
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There are four entries for this Halstead [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL8130/halstead/] [accessed 6 March 2018], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font 15th-century here is noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) as one of the best 15th-century fonts in the county: "octagonal bowl with cusped sides, enclosing alternately shields and flowers, shields bearing-- (a) a cross engrailed between four water-bougets, for Bourchier; (b) a cheveron, for Stafford quartering Bourchier; (c) and (d) a cross engrailed with a molet in the quartet, for Peyton, 15th-century; setm and base, modern." In Pevsner (1976) and Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with motifs of shields and flowers." [cf. Index entry for Halstead No. 2 for a holy-water stoup listed for this church]. [NB: the other two churches in town, Holy Trinity and St. Francis, are modern]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 337728 5757532
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.9448, 0.639
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 56′ 41.28″ N, 0° 38′ 20.4″ E
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 and flat, with moulded sides
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 440
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 1: xxx, 150 and pl. opp. p. xxix
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 217