Little Yeldham

Results: 5 records

B01: design element - motifs - panel - cusped

with motifs/symbols enclosed [cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: with motifs/symbols enclosed [cf. Font notes]

B02: symbol - shield - blank

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B03: coat of arms - fish - mullet - five-pointed star - de Vere family?

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B04: design element - motifs - floral - rose

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B05: design element - motifs - floral - flower - 4-petal

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 11692YEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located about 11 km NNW of Halstead
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic 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
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