Tolleshunt Knights

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11737TOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (late?) [re-cut?], Decorated [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Church of All Saints [leased to the Orthodox Church since 2000]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17531975
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: A note by Ian Rose [ http"//homepage.ntlworld.com/i.rose/tolleshuntknights.htm] accompanying the photograph of this building reads: "This church is now leased to the Orthodox Church" (2000) [site accessed 24 April 2006]
Church Address: Rectory Rd, Tolleshunt Knights, Maldon CM9 8HF, United Kingdom
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Tolleshunt Knights is located off the B1023, about 15 km NE of Maldon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Thurstable [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: recycled font? / altered font? : the RCHM suggests old basin recarved in the 14th century
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: In Chancel--square tapering bowl, of Barnack stone, sides each with two square traceried panels; late 14th-century panelling probably cut on earlier bowl." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Late C14, square with traceried panels." Bettely & Pevsner (2007) report that All Saints' "ceased to be a parish in 1957" and was later "reordered for the Eastern Orthodox Community"; they do not mention a font in it..

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 347720 5739999
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.7901, 0.792
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 47′ 24.36″ N, 0° 47′ 31.2″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Barnack stone)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

  • Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 791
  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 3: 222
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 395