Helions Bumpstead / Bumpstead Magna / Bumsteda / Great Bumpstead / Helion Bumpstead
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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: some round, some pointed [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 - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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: the font and cover partially visible at the west end of the south aisle
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: 11664HEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew, Helions Bumpstead
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Church Wikidata: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helions_Bumpstead,_St_Andrew_-_north_side_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6575364.jpg
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: 1 Church Hill, Helions Bumpstead, Haverhill CB9 7HP, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1440 731687
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located N of the B1054, about 13 km ENE of Saffron Walden
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chalmsford
Additional Comments: damaged font: much worn [cf. FontNotes] -- disappeared font? (the earlier font)
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Royal Commission of Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl and stem with cusped panels, much worn, 15th-century." Noted in Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with traceried stem and the usual quatrefoils along the bowl." [NB: the fabric of the church is said to go back to Norman times, but we have no information on its earlier font]
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
Apparatus: no
Notes: low dome; modern?
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 484
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 1: 156
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 237