Tolleshunt Major

Results: 3 records

B01: symbol - shield

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B02: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 2

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

design element - motifs - panel - trefoiled - 2

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 11738TOL
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 6 km NE of Maldon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, against the S wall
Century and Period: 14th century (early?), Early Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes:
Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: built against S. wall, semi-octagonal, Purbeck marble bowl, two faces with trefoil-headed panels, one face with a shield and two faces with rosettes, moulded under-side, early 14th-century." Iin Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Placed against the S wall. Half an octagon, Perp[endicular], with rosettes and shields."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: polygonal (mounted) [cf. FontNotes]
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal [cf. FontNotes]

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