White Roding / Roding Alba / White Rooding / White Roothing

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view of font and cover in context - southwest view

Source caption: "St Martin, White Roding - Font"
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Martin, White Roding - Font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 15 May 2013 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3521091] [accessed 19 February 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

design element - motifs - zigzag

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 15 May 2013 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3521091] [accessed 19 February 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

at the upper and lower ends of the basin, framing the xig-zag between them
Scene Description: at the upper and lower ends of the basin, framing the xig-zag between them
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 15 May 2013 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3521091] [accessed 19 February 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5

view of church exterior - northwest view

Source caption: "A view across the churchyard to the north-east of St Martin's Church, White Roding, Essex, England."
Scene Description: Source caption: "A view across the churchyard to the north-east of St Martin's Church, White Roding, Essex, England."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Acabashi, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 12 April 2015 by Acabashi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_St_Martin_White_Roding_Essex_England_-_from_the_northeast.jpg] [accessed 19 February 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Source caption: "A view across the churchyard to the south-east of St Martin's Church, White Roding, Essex, England."
Scene Description: Source caption: "A view across the churchyard to the south-east of St Martin's Church, White Roding, Essex, England."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Acabashi, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 12 April 2015 by Acabashi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_St_Martin_White_Roding_Essex_England_-_from_the_south_east.jpg] [accessed 19 February 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11747ROD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (early?), Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Martin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, towards the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Address: Church Ln, White Roding, Dunmow CM6 1RR, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1279 876219
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A1060, 11 km ENE of Harlow, 13 km NW of Chelmsford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Font Notes:
Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font:of Purbeck marble, square tapered bowl, moulded and carved with rough zig-zag pattern; the spandrels on the top surface have concentric grooves; circular stem on square chamfered base; early 12th-century." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Norman, square, of Purbeck marble with zigzag decoration and inicised concentric circles in the spandrels on the top." Ditto in Bettley & Pevsner (2007). Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: bowl carved with rough zig-zag pattern; there are no subsidiary shafts" [source given: RCHM (C&SW), 1921]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TL5617513351] notes: "The square Norman Font is of Purbeck Marble moulded and carved with rough zig-zag pattern. The top with incised concentric circles in the spandrels, circular stem on square chamfered base."

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 311272 5742004
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.797, 0.263
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 47′ 49.2″ N, 0° 15′ 46.8″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 2: 256-257
  • Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 73
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 423