Steeple Bumpstead / Bumsted / Bumstede / Bumstede ad Trim

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symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 7

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11707STE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 3 Church Street, Steeple Bumpstead, Essex, CB9 7DG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1440 731687
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off the B1054-B1057 crossroads, 5 km S of Haverhill, about 15 km ENE of Saffron Walden
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Hinckford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the tower
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church Notes: original church 11thC
There are six entries for [Steeple] Bumpstead [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL6741/steeple-bumpstead/] [accessed 18 November 2017], none of which mentions priest or church in it. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) notes: "Font: In tower, with octagonal stem and bowl, seven faces of bowl with quatrefoil panels and plain shields, 15th-century." In Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with quatrefoils carrying shields."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.042332, 0.446726
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 2′ 32.39″ N, 0° 26′ 48.22″ E
UTM: 31U 324896 5768824

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