Stondon Massey
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B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 8
![the basin panels appear to have been re-tooled or re-carved [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120402005_compressed.png)
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
![the base appears to have been re-tooled or re-carved [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120402006_compressed.png)
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]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11730STO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the tower
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Address: Ongar Road, Stondon Massey, Brentwood, Essex, CM150LD, UK
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km SE of Chipping Ongar
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Ongar
Additional Comments: damaged font / restored font / re-tooled? / re-carved? (restored in plaster) (the present font) -- disappeared font? (the one from the Norman church) -- famous person font: William Byrd (1539/1540 - 1623) British composer of the Renaissance period
Font Notes:
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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].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of Suffolk Churches and Norfolk Churches, for his photographs of this church and font
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 754
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 2: 227
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 373