Little Leighs

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11689LEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century [re-carved in the 14th century?], Medieval [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist, Little Leighs
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17545035
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Evangelist
Church Address: Church Ln, Little Leighs, Chelmsford CM3 1PQ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7957 228467
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 11 km N of Chelmsford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Additional Comments: altered font: partly re-carved -- disappeared font?
Font Notes:
Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl with panelled and traceried sides, stem with eight attached shafts having moulded capitals; four alternate shafts have five carved figures of beasts as bases, above the angles of the square base which has a chamfered plinth and stands on a platform or step, 14th-century." Iin Pevsner (1976): "Font. Octagonal, with tracery panels, C14." Bettley & Pevsner (2007) expand the description to include the base: "Octagonal bowl on eight shafts round a central stem, with worn figures of animals as bases. C13, with tracery on the panels of the bowl addedd in the C14." [NB: the RCHM (ibid.) reports a holy-water stoup of uncertain date on the E side of the S entrance -- not listed in this index]. [NB: there may have been an earlier font in this church, since some parts of the building appear to date from the 12th century, but we have no information on it]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

  • Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 557
  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 2: 158
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 281