Terling / Terlinga
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph 20 August 2014 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4166004] [accessed 2 June 2024]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints, Terling"
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints, Terling - East end"
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Image Source: digital photograph 5 January 2013 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3282327] [accessed 2 June 2024]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints, Terling - Font"
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Image Source: digital photograph 20 August 2014 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4166004] [accessed 2 June 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11733TER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Rd, Terling, Chelmsford CM3 2PQ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1245 206266
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 5 km W of Witham, 10-11 km NE of Chelmsford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century (early?) [basin and lower base only] [composite font], Transitional [altered]
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Terling [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL7714/terling/] [accessed 2 June 2024] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl of Purbeck marble, each face with two sunk and pointed panels, early 13th-century, stem and shafts modern." Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble; "central stem and subsidiary shafts are modern". In Pevsner (1976): "Font. C13, octagonal, of Purbeck marble, with two shallow blank pointed arches on each side." Bettley & Pevsner (2007) add: "C19 stem and shafts".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.8033, 0.571
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 48′ 11.88″ N, 0° 34′ 15.6″ E
UTM: 31U 332530 5741952
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal base with raised ribs around a centre pivot; modern
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
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976