Shalford nr. Braintree
Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2012
Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
Results: 16 records
coat of arms - Bray
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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coat of arms - Coggeshall - in a quatrefoil - in a circle
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Scene Description: the shield on the right of the pair [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
coat of arms - Fitzwalter
Scene Description: one of the pair in the right? [cf. Font notes]
coat of arms - Mortimer
Scene Description: one of the pair in the right? [cf. Font notes]
coat of arms - Scales - in a quatrefoil - in a circle
Scene Description: the shield on the left of the pair [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
coat of arms - Vere
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 12
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
design element - architectural - buttress - 6
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
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design element - architectural - niche - pointed
Scene Description: at the centre of some of the panels
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
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design element - motifs - panel - cusped
Scene Description: some are trepoiled, others quatrefoiled [cf. FonNotes]
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: framing the side panels, top and bottom
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 27 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmom, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 October 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2756525] [accessed 3 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 October 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2756532] [accessed 3 March 2015]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 October 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2756540] [accessed 3 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover - southeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of font and cover in context - southwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
INFORMATION
FontID: 11702SHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew [earlier dedicated to St. Leonard]
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 7-8 km NW of Braintree
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Hinckford [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Timothy Marlow for his photographs of this font
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for this Shalford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TL7229/shalford/] [accessed 3 March 2015], neither of which mention cleric or church in it. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) notes: "Font: of clunch, hexagonal bowl with cusped and panelled faces, alternate panels each with two shields, charged with the arms of Mortimer, Fitzwalter, Vere, a cheveron between three roundels with a border for Bray, six scallops for Scales, and a cross between four scallops for Coggeshall, stem with trefoil-headed panels, 15th-century, buttresses and base probably modern." Pevsner (1976), however, writes: "Font. Octagonal. Traceried stem, bowl with two small quatrefoils with shields in each panel." Bettley & Pevsner (2007) correct the oversight and describe the font as hexagonal, of the 15th century.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.935009, 0.506305
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 56′ 6.03″ N, 0° 30′ 22.7″ E
UTM: 31U 328572 5756748
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (clunch)
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: hexagonal, with a crenellated border, and a cross finial; appears modern, perhaps 19th-century?
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