Little Totham
Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
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Results: 4 records
B01: design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
R01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11690TOT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints, Little Totham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17536904
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: mid-12thC church
Church Address: Little Totham Hall, Church Rd, Little Totham, Maldon CM9 8LU, United Kingdom
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NNE of Maldon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Additional Comments: moved font? Was it originally at Coclchester St. Runwald's [demolished in 1878]
Font Notes:
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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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 562
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 3: xxxii, 175 and pl. opp. p. xxxiv
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 285