Wakes Colne

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 18

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 April 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info/church.asp?p=Wakes Colne] [accessed 17 April 2012]

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view of church exterior - south portal

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info/church.asp?p=Wakes Colne] [accessed 17 April 2012]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info/church.asp?p=Wakes Colne] [accessed 17 April 2012]

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

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view of font in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave

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Scene Description: Perpendicular-style font base (?) in the churchyard; the upper part, which does not appear to correspond to a baptismal font, has a Latin inscription on the rim

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11740WAK

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [originally from Messing All Saints'?]

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Country Name: England

Location: Essex, East

Directions to Site: Located 8 km E of Halstead

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century (late?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, and to Janice Tostevin for their photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are eight entries for [Earls, Wakes and White] Colne [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/earls-wakes-and-white-colne/] [accessed 13 June 2018], none of which mentions priest or church in it. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) reports: "Font: hexagonal bowl, each face with three round-headed panels late 12th-century, base modern." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Octagonal, late C12, with three shallow blank arches on each side of the bowl." Bettley & Pevsner (2007) add: "Font. Octagonal, late C12, with three shallow blank arches on each side of the bowl. From Messing, 1848; Purbeck marble base by Watts of Colchester, 1930." The Victoria County History (2001) entry reads: "The late-12th-century font, given in 1846 by the rector Thomas Henderson, probably came from his other church at Messing." [NB: the RCHM inventories also a holy-water stoup of the 15th century in the north porch, but its basin is missing]. The Messing Parish website [http://www.messing-and-inworth.org.uk/ChrchHistory.htm] [accessed 15 July 2010] notes: " The original ancient font, was given to Wakes Colne church by a former vicar, Revd. Thomas Henderson, who was also rector of that parish." There is a now pedestal base in the churchyard that may have belonged to a Perpendicular-style font originally.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: hexagonal, low pyramid with cross finial

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-04-24 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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