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]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

UB01: design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking southwest

Scene Description: the font and cover partially visible at the west end of the south aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 11664HEL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Country Name: England

Location: Essex, East

Directions to Site: Located about 13 km of Saffron Walden [Coordinates: 52° 1′ 24.96″ N, 0° 14′ 30.48″ E 52.0236, 0.2418]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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]

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

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