Tolleshunt D'Arcy
Results: 4 records
B01: symbol - shield
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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B02: design element - motifs - floral - rosette
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
B03: symbol - cross
Scene Description: a plain cross [cf. Font notes]
LB01: design element - architectural - buttress
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
INFORMATION
FontID: 11736TOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 10 km NE of Maldon
Font Location in Church: Inside te church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes:
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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
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