Ramsden Bellhouse / Ramesdanam / Ramesdunam
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joan, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2006 by Joan [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/240150] [accessed 12 December 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11701RAM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Rd, Ramsden Bellhouse, Billericay CM11, UK, UK -- Tel.: +44 7485 039204
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A129, 4 km E of Billericay, 10-12 km E of Brentwood
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Barstable
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century [stem and part of lower base only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: church documented late-13thC
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There are seven entries for Ramsden [Bellhouse and Crays] [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/ramsden-bellhouse-and-crays/], one of which reports "1 church. 0.25 church lands" in it. The entry for this church in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) notes: "Font: octagonal stem and moulded base, 15th-century, bowl and part of base modern. Font cover: of wood with eight voluted supports to turned middle-post, late 17th or early 18th-century." Only the font cover is noted in Pevsner (1976): "Font cover, c.1700". Neither font nor cover mentioned in Bettley & Pevsner (2007). The short history by Len Ferris [www.ramsdenbellhouse.info/history/article_2.html] [accessed 12 December 2019] notes: "The Font is of traditional octagonal design, and has a 19th Century bowl on a much earlier stem and base which are the inverted originals. The font cover is a modern replacement (1975) and has ironwork in the shape of a lotus flower on its top."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.6217,
0.483
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 37′ 18.12″ N,
0° 28′ 58.8″ E
UTM: 31U 325767 5721965
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1975
Material:
wood,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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