Tolleshunt Knights

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B01: design element - patterns - tracery

re-cut at a later date than the basin itself? [cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: re-cut at a later date than the basin itself? [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 11737TOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Church of All Saints [temple leased to the Orthodox Church since 2000]
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: [NB: there is no village attached to this church, which is located about 10 km NE of Maldon]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel
Century and Period: 14th century (late?) [re-cut?], Decorated [altered]
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]
Font Notes:
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..

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
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