Wendens Ambo No. 1 / Great Wenden / Wenden Magna / Wenden Parva / Wendena
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Results: 8 records
view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Graham Jones, 2006
Image Source: digital image in www.fitzmarc.org.uk
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 27 April, 2006)
view of font
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Image Source: detail of a digital image in www.fitzmarc.org.uk
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Graham Jones, 2006
Image Source: digital image in www.fitzmarc.org.uk
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 27 April, 2006)
view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Graham Jones, 2006
Image Source: digital image in www.fitzmarc.org.uk
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 27 April, 2006)
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Graham Jones, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digital image in www.fitzmarc.org.uk
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 27 April, 2006)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11743WEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1400?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Path, Wendens Ambo, Saffron Walden CB11 4JZ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1799 542874
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B1039, E of the M11, about 4 km SW of Saffron Walden, 25 km SSE of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Uttlesford
Additional Comments: damaged font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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There are four entries for Wendens [Ambo and Lofts] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/wendens-ambo-and-lofts/] [accessed 11 December 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this church in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) notes: "Font: octagonal, quite plain, c. 1400. Font-cover: domed, wooden, with chamfered ribs, c. 1600." Only the font cover is noted in Pevsner (1976): "C16, domed, with a ball finial." Bettley & Pevsner (2007) do mention the font: "Octagonal, c. 1400." The font itself consists of an octagonal basin of plain vertical sides, raised on a shirt octagonal stem and a square lower base; the only decoration visible are four trimmed edges on the chamfer of the lower volume. The basin is cemented to a column of the nave, and appears cracked or broken, with damage also on the upper rim, where an staple of the old cover may have been removed. The font cover is now attached to a pulley and a rope, but it appears to be a modern addition.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Graham Jones, of www.fitzwimarc.org.uk, and to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for their photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 308009 5765317
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.00525, 0.20276
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 0′ 18.9″ N, 0° 12′ 9.94″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 16th - 17th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 819
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 1: 331
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 414