Tolleshunt D'Arcy / Tolehunta

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11736TOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas, Tolleshunt D'Arcy
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17536910
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Maldon CM9 8TS, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7742 999633
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B1023, 10 km ENE of Maldon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Thurstable [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
There are twelve entries for Tolleshunt [D'Arcy, Knights and Major] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/tolleshunt-darcy-knights-and-major/] [accessed 24 June 2025]; none of them mention priest or church in it. Geldart (1899) illustrates a rose that "appears on three sides of the font in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, in Essex." Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal, with panelled bowl, panels filled with roses and shields one with a plain cross, moulded upper and lower edge, buttressed stem and hollow-chamfered base, late 15th or early 16thcentury." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with shields and rosettes in the panels." [but, not in Bettley & Pevsner (2007)]. [NB: the RCHM inventories also the remains of a hollow recess for a stoup in the S porch]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Geldart, Ernest, A manual of church decoration and symbolism, containing directions and advice to those who desire worthily to deck the church at various seasons of the year: also, the explanation and the history of the symbols and emblems of religion, Oxford, London: A.R. Mobray & Co., 1899, p. 116 and pl. XXV, fig. 10
  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 3: 220
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 394