Stondon Massey

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Results: 4 records

B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 8

Scene Description: the basin panels appear to have been re-tooled or re-carved [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2011

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 October 2011] by Simon Knott [www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/6295578579/] [accessed 26 March 2012]

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: the base appears to have been re-tooled or re-carved [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2011

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 October 2011] by Simon Knott [www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/6295578579/] [accessed 26 March 2012]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2011] by Simon Knott [www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/6296108216/] [accessed 26 March 2012]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the west end, beneath the tower

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2011] by Simon Knott [www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/6295578579/] [accessed 26 March 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11730STO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: Ongar Road, Stondon Massey, Brentwood, Essex, CM150LD
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 3 km SE of Chipping Ongar
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Ongar
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the tower
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches and Norfolk Churches, for his photographs of this church and font
Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal, sides of bowl panelled with quatrefoils enclosing bosses of foliage, moulded base, 15th-century, restored in plaster." In the Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 4, 1956): "Of the original structure, apart from the walls, there remain two characteristic narrow Norman window openings [...] The font, which dates from the 15th century, is octagonal, the sides of the bowl being panelled with quatrefoils." In Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal. Bowl with quatrefoils carrying fleurons." The whole font appears to have been re-tooled or re-carved. [NB: we have no information on the font from the Norman church here].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 312788 5728920

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: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-04-24 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