Little Bentley

Results: 4 records

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11687BEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1500?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Little Bentley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17536922
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Rd, Little Bentley, Colchester CO7, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1206 250622
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A120, 13 km E of Colchester
Additional Comments: ill. In context in www.essexchurches.info -- too low rez for use
Font Notes:
Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal, one face of the bowl with octofoiled panel enclosing a shield of the arms of Pyrton, moulded under-edge, carved with plain shields and rosettes alternately, plain stem and moulded base, c. 1500." In Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Octagonal, plain, with one shield on the E front (Pyrton arms)." The RCHM (ibid.) further notes a recess for a holy-water stoup with a broken bowl, date uncertain [no separate entry in this Index]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: almost flat; modern?

REFERENCES

  • Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 541
  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 3: 161, 162
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 272