Peldon / Peltenduna
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Mary the Virgin Church, Peldon"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Farmer, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 5 Mune 2010 by Paul Farmer [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1898120] [accessed 2 June 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Peldon, St. Mary the Virgin's Church: The nave"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 20 December 2023 by [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7673997] [accessed 2 June 2024]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Peldon, St. Mary the Virgin's Church: The font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 20 December 2023 by [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7673994] [accessed 2 June 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11700PEL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Rd., Peldon, Colchester CO5 7PT, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1206 383222
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off (W) road B1025, 8 km S of Colchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Winstree [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [restored], Transitional / Early English [altered]
There are two entries for Peldon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL9816/peldon/] [accessed 2 June 2024] one of which reports "1 church. 0.25 church lands." in it. Baptismal font noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl of Purbeck marble, with central pier and eight small shafts, double chamfered base, late 12th-century, much restored or recut." Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble. In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Plain, octagonal, C13, on nine supports." Bettley & Pevsner (2007) note the material (Purbeck marble) and qualify on the date: "Late C12 or C13, much restored". The RCHM (ibid.) inventories also a holy-water stoup of later date in this church: "Stoup: In S. porch--E. of S. doorway, with moulded jambs, four-centred head and foliated spandrels, 15th-century" [no separate entry in this Index]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TL9894316776] notis: "Church of St Mary the Virgin [...] C12 nave in mixed rubble"; it mentions neither font nor stoup in it.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.813871,
0.884854
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 48′ 49.94″ N,
0° 53′ 5.47″ E
UTM: 31U 354200 5742452
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
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, made of oak, with metal locking mechanism; appears modern
REFERENCES
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
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976
