Maldon No. 1
Image copyright © Barry Samuels. 2006
Permission received (e-mail of 18 April 2006)
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: NB: this is the copy of the original font now in the church of St. Saviour, St. Albans (Herts.)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Barry Samuels. 2006
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Barry Samuels in www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk/essex/maldon21big.html
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 18 April 2006)
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: NB: this is the copy of the original font now in the church of St. Saviour, St. Albans (Herts.)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Barry Samuels. 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Barry Samuels in www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk/essex/maldon21big.html
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 18 April 2006)
INFORMATION
FontID: 11695MAL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: High Street, Maldon, Essex, CM9 4QE, United Kingdom CM9 5PJ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1621 854179
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off the A414, E of Chelmsford [Coordinates: 51° 43′ 54.48″ N, 0° 40′ 32.88″ E 51.7318, 0.6758] [Diocese of Chelmsford]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Wibrihtesherne [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, by the tower entrance
Date: ca. 1866?
Century and Period: 19th century (mid?), Victorian
Cognate Fonts: this font is a copy of the original, which is now at St. Albans St. Saviour's
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Barry Samuels, of www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk, for his photograph of this font.
Church Notes: original church here probably ca. 1180
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. Coller (1861) reports "a fine Purbeck font" in this church at his time. Bettley & Pevsner (2007) write: "Font and reredos. 1899-7, the main survivals of an extensive refitting of the church by William Adams." The BeenThere-DoneThat, The Unofficial Guide to Britain site [www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk/essex/maldon21big.html] notes the presence of a copy of the original font made in 1866, now in the west end, by the entrance to the tower, at Maldon All Saints'. [NB: Coller's description of the font in 1861 does not appear to match the font moved to St. Albans -- we have no information on the whereabouts of the "Purbeck font"]. [cf. Index entry for St. Albans No. 3 for a late-medieval font originally from this church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.728882,
0.687685
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 43′ 43.97″ N,
0° 41′ 15.67″ E
UTM: 31U 340311 5733415
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat wooden lid with metal ribs around the pivot/finial; modern
REFERENCES
Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007
Coller, D. W., The People's history of Essex, comprising a narrative of public and political events in the county [...], Chelmsford: Meggy and Chalk, 1861
