Little Yeldham

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11692YEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Little Yeldham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26416115
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Church Grn, Halstead CO9 4LD, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1787 237211
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A1017, about 11 km NNW of Halstead, the same distance W of Sudbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Additional Comments: recycled font: only the basin is original -- photo in www.essexchurches.info too low-res to use -- disappeared font?
Font Notes:
Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl, with cusped panels enclosing a molet, roses, blank shields, and a four-leaf flower, 15th-century; stem and base, modern." In Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with qautrefoils etc. and shields." The Benefice website [http://www.yeldhamchurches.org/churches/little-yeldham/] [accessed 15 July 2010] identifies the five-pointed star mullet on the font as de Vere's. [NB: there may have been a church here since the late 11th century, but we have no infromation on the earlier font]

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. 566
  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 1: 190
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 287