Matching / Matcing / Matcinge / Metcinga
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symbol - shield - cross - in a quatrefoil
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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil
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symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified - in a quatrefoil
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view of church exterior - southeast end
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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design element - motifs - panel - trefoiled
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design element - motifs - panel - cinquefoiled
Scene Description: some of the panels on the stem [cf. Font notes]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11697MAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
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 Notes: church documented as of ca. 1150
Church Address: Church Green, Matching, Harlow CM17 0QZ, UK
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the M11, 6 km E of Harlow
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Harlow
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the mid-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There are four entries for Matching [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL5212/matching/] [accessed 7 June 2018], none of which mentions priest or church in it. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) notes: "Font: octagonal bowl with moulded under edge and base, on each face a quatrefoil panel containing flowers, shields, etc., one shield with a cross, another with a cheveron; stem panelled with trefoiled and cinquefoiled heads to the panels; 15th-century." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TL5251911960] reports: "The font has an octagonal bowl with moulded under-edge and base, on each face a quatrefoil panel containing flowers, shields, etc; stem panelled with trefoiled and cinquefoiled heads to the panels." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 8, 1983) notes: "A church probably existed c. 1150, when Hugh, dean of Matching, was recorded [...] The font, which dates from the 15th century, has an octagonal bowl with shields of arms." In Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with quatrefoils with shields and flowers."
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 307548 5740865
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.785507, 0.209706
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 47′ 7.82″ N, 0° 12′ 34.94″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decorations and ring handle
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. 594
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 2: 187 and pl. opp. p. xxxii
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 297