Stanford Rivers

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16

Scene Description: two per side

view of church exterior - southwest view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/962484] [accessed 28 March 2012]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of church interior - west gallery

Scene Description: the top of the basin and its cover are discernible right under the gallery, on the north (right) side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11706STA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret of Antioch
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: Mutton Row, Stanford Rivers, Essex CM5 9QS
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 3 km SW of Chipping Ongar
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Ongar
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, N side
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Early English
Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: of Barnack stone, octagonal font with two pointed panels in each face, round stem with eight detached shafts, early 13th-century." The Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 4, 1956) notes: "The advowson of Stanford Rivers was acquired soon after the Norman Conquest by the priory of Rumilly-le-Comte, which probably had it from Eustace, Count of Boulogne. [...] The nave was built in the middle of the 12th century. [...] The early-13th-century font is of Barnack stone, the octagonal bowl having sunk panels with pointed heads and the stem having eight detached shafts." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Of the usual Purbeck type of c.1200, but of Barnack stone. Octagonal with two shallow pointed arches to each side." Noted much the same in Bettley & Pevsner (2007).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.68501, 0.21763
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 41′ 6.04″ N, 0° 13′ 3.47″ E
UTM: 31U 307668 5729670

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Barnack stone)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-04-19 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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