Harwich
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16
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Image Source: digital photograph 17 April 2013 by Simon Knott [https://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/8688707706] [accessed 31 May 2024]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Harwich: Church of St Nicholas"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nigel Cox, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 15 March 2020 by Nigel Cox [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6419944] [accessed 31 May 2024]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "medieval font" -- the base and the cover are modern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 17 April 2013 by Simon Knott [https://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/8688707706] [accessed 31 May 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11663HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas [originally from the earlier church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: 67 Church St, Harwich CO12 3DR, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1255 502033
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located at the E end of the A120, 29 km ENE of Colchester, at the extreme NE point of the Essex coast
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Font Location in Church: Inside the 19th-century church [before 1821 in the old church]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Transitional [altered]
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl, each face with two panels with pointed heads, late 12th-century, stem and base modern." Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble; "stem and base modern". In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Octagonal, of Purbeck marble, of the usual type with two shallow blank pointed arches to each side, early C13." Bettley & Pevsner (2007) note three fonts in this church: "the oldest early C13, octagonal, of Purbeck marble. Of the usual type [...]"; the other two fonts are reported as modern: "Movable Coade stone font, 1821", and a "third given in 1873". The Harwich Society website [http://www.harwich-society.co.uk/old/info_stnics.htm] [accessed 8 July 2010] reports that the old Purbeck marble basin was "was retrieved from the churchyard in 1876 and reinstated in the church".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.9458, 1.28868
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 56′ 44.88″ N, 1° 17′ 19.25″ E
UTM: 31U 382379 5756393
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976