Stambourne No. 1
Results: 5 records
B01: symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: the RCHM claims the basin is modern [cf. Font notes]
LB01: design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
LB02: design element - motifs - panel - cinquefoiled
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
view of church exterior - tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church interior - plan
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
FontID: 11705STA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Thomas
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Thomas
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off the A1017, E of Saffron Walden, 15 km W of Sudbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century[stem only?] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: stem with traceried and cinquefoil-headed panels, late 15th or early 16th-century, bowl modern." Pevsner (1976) and Bettley & Pevsner (2007) do not make the distingction of its parts: "Font. Octagonal, with traceried stem and the usual quatrefoils and shields on the bowl."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976