South Weald / Walda / Welda

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Results: 11 records
design element - motifs - foliage
design element - motifs - moulding
design element - motifs - moulding
view of church exterior - south portal
view of church exterior - south portal - detail
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church interior - nave - looking west
view of font and cover
view of font and cover in context
view of font and cover in context
INFORMATION
FontID: 11704WEA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Weald Rd, Brentwood CM14 5QJ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1277 212054
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off (NE) the M25-A12 crossroads, 3 km W of Brentwood
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chalmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Chafford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1662
Century and Period: 17th century(mid), Restoration
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There are two entries for [South] Weald [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ5793/south-weald/] [accessed 15 May 2018], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Noted in Pevsner (1976) and in the later edition with Bettley (2007): "Font. 1662, polygonal, with thick leaves sprouting up the stem." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 8, 1983) notes: "The ancient parish church, which was built by c. 1150, originally belonged to the manor of South Weald. Between 1244 and 1254 the bishop of London licensed Waltham abbey, to which the manor then belonged, to appropriate the rectory, and at the same time ordained a vicarage [...] partly rebuilt in 1868 [...] designed by S. S. Teulon [...] The polygonal font is dated 1662." [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of this church]. [NB: Bentley St Paul's and Warley Christ Church are both modern].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.62326,
0.2653
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 37′ 23.74″ N,
0° 15′ 55.08″ E
UTM: 31U 310706 5722680
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: yes; pulley
Notes: narrow and octagonal spire with crocketed arrises; dove-on-ball finial; modern
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-09-17 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976