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coat of arms - unidentified - in a quatrefoil

Scene Description: "with a cheveron" [cf. Font notes]

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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil

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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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design element - motifs - panel - trefoiled

Scene Description: some of the panels on the stem [cf. Font notes]

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symbol - shield - cross - in a quatrefoil

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view of church exterior - southeast end

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11697MAT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Green, Matching, Harlow CM17 0QZ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the M11, 6 km E of Harlow
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Harlow
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church Notes: church documented as of ca. 1150
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.785507, 0.209706
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 47′ 7.82″ N, 0° 12′ 34.94″ E
UTM: 31U 307548 5740865

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-. Accessed: 2018-06-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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