High Laver

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B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 October 2011 by Simon Knott [www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/6295721123/] [accessed 26 March 2012]

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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding

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UB01: design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2011 by Simon Knott [www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/6295721123/] [accessed 26 March 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11667LAV
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: High Laver, Essex, CM5 0DX
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 2 km NW of Moreton, 6-7 km NNW of Chipping Ongar, 8 km SE of Harlow
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Ongar
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the tower
Century and Period: 14th century (mid?), Early Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Norfolk and Suffolk Churches, for his photographs of this church and font
Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl with moulded underside, each face with quatrefoiled panel enclosing a blank shield, panelled and traceried stem, mid 14th-century, base modern." Reported in the Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 4, 1956): "The nave was built late in the 12th century. [...] The font, which stands in the tower, dates from the middle of the 14th century. It has an octagonal bowl on each face of which is a quatrefoil panel enclosing a shield." The VCH (ibid.) adds that the font was repaired around 1865. Noted in Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with traceried stem; bowl with quatrefoils carrying shields." The outer surfaces of the font are eroded and the whole has been whitewashed; one of the shields of the basin has an inscription, partially erased ["TM 1719"?] and a later addition [perhaps a churchwarden's initials and date]; the underbowl chamfer is a large scotia between two torus, damaged as well; the octagonal pedestal base has traceried windows on its sides; the lower base is modern and has graded moulding on five of its eight sides; the other three sides fit into a modern kneeling extension. The wooden cover is plain, octagonal and flat, and appears modern. [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to late-Norman times, but we have no information on the earlier font]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 307581 5737578

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-04-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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