Little Bentley

Results: 4 records

B01: coat of arms - Pyrton

in an octafoil panel [cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: in an octafoil panel [cf. Font notes]

B02: design element - motifs - panel - octafoiled

with a shield and coat of arms inscribed
Scene Description: with a shield and coat of arms inscribed

BU01: symbol - shield - blank

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

BU02: design element - motifs - floral - rosette

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 11687BEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 13 km E of Colchester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Date: ca. 1500?
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
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
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