Langenhoe / Langhou

Results: 2 records

design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a quatrefoil

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

design element - motifs - panel - cinquefoiled- 8

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 11682LAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 8 km SSE of Colchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Winstree [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
The entry for Langenhoe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM0117/langenhoe/] [accessed 26 July 2023] has two entries, neither of wich mentions a church in it; one of the entries gives "Engelric (the priest)" as being lord in 1066, replaced by Count Eustace of Boulogne in 1086. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) notes: "Font: octagonal bowl, each side with a quatrefoiled panel, enclosing a flower, octagonal stem with sunk panels having cinquefoiled heads, moulded base, 15th-century." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with panels with flowers in quatrefoils." [NB: the church od St Mary in Langenhoe was demolished in 1962]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 356048 5743972

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

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