Wakes Colne
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 18
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 April 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior - south portal
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of font in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of object
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2012
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11740WAK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints, Wakes Colne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17545467
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Previous Font Location(s): originally from Messing All Saints'?
Church Address: 6 Wakes St, Wakes Colne, Colchester CO6 2BY, United Kingdom
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A1124, 8 km ESE of Halstead
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Additional Comments: the basin is original but re-tooled; the base is modern - the basin was moved from another parish [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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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.
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.
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
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 803
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 3: 226
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 400