Sutton nr. Southend-on-Sea

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 20

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 11731SUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 3 km N of Southend-on-Sea, just SE of Rochford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [part of basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: square bowl with five shallow pointed panels on each side, 13th-century, stam, base and half the bowl modern." In Pevsner (1976: "Font. C13, of the Purbeck type, with five pointed shallow arcades on each side." [NB: by "the Purbeck type" Pevsner means that the font is square, table-top, on a single or multiple support, and not necessarily made of 'Purbeck marble']. Bettley & Pevsner (2007) adds: "Base probably 1869".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

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