Tendring

Results: 5 records

B01: symbol - shield - blank - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B02: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B03: symbol - fruit - pomegranate

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

BU01: design element - motifs - scroll

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

LB01: design element - motifs - panel - cinquefoiled

Scene Description: on the sides of the stem [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 11732TEN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Edmund King and Martyr
Church Patron Saints: St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia]
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 15 km SW of Harwich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century(early?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "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
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