Little Totham

Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
PD
Results: 4 records
B01: design element - patterns - tracery
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
R01: design element - motifs - moulding
INFORMATION
FontID: 11690TOT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 9 km NNE of Maldon [Coordinates: 51° 46′ 27.17″ N, 0° 44′ 15.46″ E 51.774213, 0.737629]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The 'Godman Collection', in the Essex Record Office, contains a pre-1906 B&E photograph of this font, possibly by Ernest Godman (ref.: D/Y 33/7/11) [http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/result_details.asp?DocID=976399] accessed 22 September 2010]. Baptismal font noted with an illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "octagonal, each face of bowl with different form of window tracery, moulded top-edge, 15th-century, stem and base modern." In Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, the bowl decorated with tracery. The font is quite unusually interesting, because the carver used apparently what were to him eight current tracery motifs. They are indeed much as one sees frequently in church windows. But although the date is no doubt C15, the Dec[orated] motifs of cusped intersection and of ogee reticulation are still there. Otherwise the motifs are those of three- and four-light panel tracery and the Perp[endicular] type with straightened reticulation, both with and without transom." The VCH (1994) rejects that the font may have been originally from Colchester St. Runwald's: "architectural evidence does not support the claim that the 15rh-century font in Little Totham church in 1985 came from St. Runwald's."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-04-18 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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