Tendring / Tenderinge / Tendringa / Tendringe

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11732TEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(early?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Edmund King and Martyr, Tending
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17532788
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia]
Church Address: 1 The St, Tendring, Clacton-on-Sea CO16 0BN, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1255 886210
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B1035, 15 km SW of Harwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Tendring [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
There are six entried for Tending [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TM1424/tendring/] [accessed 24 June 205], none of which mentions priest or church in it. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) notes: "Font: octagonal bowl with panelled sides carved with foliage or pomegranates and four with blank shields, moulded lower edge with scroll ornament, stem with cinquefoil-headed panels, moulded base, early 16th-century." In Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Octagonal, with elaborate foliage and shields in the panels."

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, p. 759
  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 3: 213
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 378