North Benfleet
Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 24
Scene Description: Six arches on each side.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Essex County Council, 2010
Image Source: [enhanced] B&W photograph by C.W. Forbes in SEAX-Essex Archives Online [I/Mb 27/1/1] [accessed 16 July 2010]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of church and font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Essex County Council, 2010
Image Source: B&W photographs: North Benfleet church, and font Photographs by C.W. Forbes in SEAX-Essex Archives Online [I/Mb 27/1/1] [accessed 16 July 2010]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Essex County Council, 2010
Image Source: [enhanced] B&W photograph by C.W. Forbes in SEAX-Essex Archives Online [I/Mb 27/1/1] [accessed 16 July 2010]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font at the west end, north (right) side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
FontID: 11699BEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 12 km WNW of Southend-on-Sea
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [basin and lower base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: square bowl, each face with six shallow pointed panels, square base with seating for stem and four shafts at the angles, early 13th-century, stem modern." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Of the C13 Purbeck type, square bowl, each side with six shallow blank pointed arches."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
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