Wennington / Wenituna

CC-BY-SA-2.5

Results: 7 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

view of basin and cover

Image Source: illustration in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2005 by Glyn Baker [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/53885] [accessed 26 March 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Churchyard St Mary & St Peter's Wennington"

Image Source: digital photograph 10 May 2020 by Glyn Baker [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6469082] [accessed 3 June 2024]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary & St Peter, Wennington - West end" -- the top of the font cover is visible at the back, beneath the last arch of the arcade separating the nave from the north aisle

Image Source: digital photograph 18 March 2016 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4872381] [accessed 3 June 2024]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "The 13th-century, Purbeck marble baptismal font at the west end of the Church of Saint Mary and Saint Peter, Wennington."

Image Source: digital photograph 4 September 2021 by Doyle of London [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baptismal_Font_in_the_Church_of_Saint_Mary_and_Saint_Peter,_Wennington_(01).jpg] [accessed 3 June 2024]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary & St Peter, Wennington - Font"

Image Source: digital photograph 18 March 2016 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4872383] [accessed 3 June 2024]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "The 13th-century, Purbeck marble baptismal font at the west end of the Church of Saint Mary and Saint Peter, Wennington."

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 11744WEN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Peter

Church Location: Wennington Road, Wennington, London, RM139DX

Country Name: England

Location: Essex, East

Directions to Site: Located near Rainham, 11 km ESE of Barking, now in the London Borough of Havering

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford

Historical Region: Hundred of Chafford [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, nemeath the arcade separating it from the N aisle

Century and Period: 13th century, Transitional / Early English

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Wennington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ5380/wennington/] [accessed 3 June 2024]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Font noted, with an illustration of the basin and cover, in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl of Purbeck marble, plain octagonal stem and hollow chamfered base, 13th-century. Font cover: [...] of oak, octagonal, with moulded edge and strap-work cresting, middle post with curved supports, first half of the 17th century." Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble; "the stem is octagonal and there are no subsidiary shafts". Only the font cover is noted in Pevsner (1976) as 'Jacobean', without a mention of the font itself. The Victoria County History (1978) mentions an octagonal Purbeck marble font of the 13th century and an early-17th century carved oak cover which, the VCH suggests, may have been installed by Henry Bust, rector between 1616-1625. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TQ5398780949] notes: "Stone and flint rubble C12 in origin, rebuilt C13, late C15 west tower. Nave and chancel have crown post roofs. South aisle C19, old arcade retained. Modern porch. Monuments. C13 church chest, C17 pulpit and hour glass stand. Font. (RCHM 1)."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.50608, 0.216134

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 30′ 21.89″ N, 0° 12′ 58.08″ E

UTM: 31U 306807 5709780

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: Jacobean? / early 17th century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923

Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976