Maldon No. 2
Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
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Results: 7 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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design element - patterns - gadrooned
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 October 2013 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3698168] [accessed 6 October 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
![with the font partially visible at the far [west] end, left [south] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1161006003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: with the font partially visible at the far [west] end, left [south] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oxyman, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 May 2008 by Oxyman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/787880] [accessed 6 October 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 October 2013 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3698205] [accessed 6 October 2016]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11694MAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century [stem only] -- 17th - 18th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Street, Maldon, Essex, CM9 5HN, UK
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A414, E of Chelmsford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Wibrihtesherne [inDomesday]
Additional Comments: composite font?
Font Notes:
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There are seven entries for Maldon in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/] [accessed 6 October 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) notes: "Font: octagonal, moulded and reeded bowl, late 17th or early 18th-century, crude tapering stem." In Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Perp[endicular] stem with bowl of c.1700". [NB: curiously enough the font at Maldon All Saints' -now at St. Albans St. Saviours' has exactly the reverse composition: Perpendicular (?) basin on a 17th-century stem; where they complementary?]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 340290 5733396
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.728709, 0.687385
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 43′ 43.35″ N, 0° 41′ 14.59″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: mid-dome with pointed top; crocketed arrises; finial in the shape of a little canopy on columns
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 580
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 2: 176
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 291