Tolleshunt Major

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11738TOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (early?), Early Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, against the S wall
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17536856
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Church Road, Tolleshunt Major, Maldon CM9 8AW , United kingdom
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located N of the B1026, 6 km NE 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: 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
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 792
  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 3: 223
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 395