Horndon-on-the-Hill / Hornindune

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Results: 9 records
design element - motifs - panel - cusped
design element - motifs - tracery
view of church exterior - southwest view
view of church exterior in context - southeast view
view of church interior - looking east
view of church interior - plan
view of font
view of font

Scene Description: notice the large damage area to the basin top left side, clearly damage caused by s metal staple in the upper rim; there is also evidence of repair damage to the top-right corner
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 12 May 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1890083] [accessed 23 December 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11671HOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: Orsett Rd, Horndon on the Hill, Stanford-le-Hope SS17 8NT, UK -- Tel.: +44 1375 891254
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off (W) theB1007, W of the A13, 8 km NNE of Tilbury, 25-30 km SSW of Chelmsford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford [formerly Diocese of London]
Historical Region: Hiundred of Barstable
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Church Notes: present building 13thC, possibly on the site of a Saxon church of which no evidence remains
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Horndon-on-the-Hill appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Hornindune, but no church is mentioned in it. Noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "The church is of some architectural interest and amongst the fittings the font is noteworthy. [...] Font: square bowl, cusped panels cut at each end of each side, square stem with similar panelling, hollow-chamfered base, 14th-century." In Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. C14, square bowl with some panelling; on square stem." The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid with a ball finial. The RCHM (ibid.) also inventories a holy-water stoup, possibly of the 16th century, in the south aisle, east of the south doorway [no separate entry in this Index]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.52396,
0.40413
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 31′ 26.26″ N,
0° 24′ 14.87″ E
UTM: 31U 319922 5711288
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal pyramid with ball finial
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