Little Leighs

Results: 2 records

B01: design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

LB01: animal

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 11689LEI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 11 km N of Chelmsford [Diocese of Chelmsford]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century [re-carved in the 14th century?], Medieval [altered]
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
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