Wivenhoe / Wiiunhou
Image copyright © Terry Garland, 2017
No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing [photo date from metadata]
Results: 5 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Terry Garland, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 December 2017 by Terry Garland ww.terrygarland.co.uk/images/church_sm2.jpg] [accessed 28 September 2010]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing [photo date from metadata]
symbol - shield
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Terry Garland, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 December 2017 by Terry Garland ww.terrygarland.co.uk/images/church_sm2.jpg] [accessed 28 September 2010]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing [photo date from metadata]
design element - motifs - quatrefoil
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Terry Garland, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 December 2017 by Terry Garland ww.terrygarland.co.uk/images/church_sm2.jpg] [accessed 28 September 2010]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing [photo date from metadata]
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info/church.asp?p=Wivenhoe] [accessed 19 April 2012]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maria, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 November 2013 by Maria [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Church_of_St_Mary,_Wivenhoe_-_Interior.JPG] [accessed 14 June 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11749WIV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: High Street, Wivenhoe, Essex CO7 9BJ, UK
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B1027, 5 km SE of Colchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Lexden
Additional Comments: disappeared font (the original one from the 13th cent (?) church) -- recycled font: the Perpendicular basin of the font recovered from the churchyard in 1923, and fitted with new stem and lower base at that time.
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Wivenhoe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TM0321/wivenhoe/] [accessed 14 June 2018], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) reports: "Font: In N. aisle--octagonal bowl, traceried panels to sides with alternate shields and foliage, 15th-century, stem and base modern." In Pevsner (1976): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with quatrefoils and shields." In Paul (1986). The Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 10, 2001) writes: "The church existed by 1254 [...] The ctagonal, 15th-century font was reinstated in the church, after being found in the graveyard in 1923, to replace one of 1860." In Bettley & Pevsner (2007). A copy of the "Faculty for removal of stone and marble font (made in 1860) and placement of fifteenth-century font found in the churchyard, with covering letter" is kept in the Parish Records at the Essex Record Office [ref. D/P 277/6/9]. The entry for Wivenhoe in Terry Garland's site [www.terrygarland.co.uk/wivenhoe_church.html] [accessed 15 June 2018] notes: "The font is of the 15th century and was found in the churchyard and placed in the west end in 1923" [NB: TG's text is preceded by the following note: "The following description is taken from the Guide Book published by The Friends of St Mary's (c) 1999"]. [NB: we have no information on the font from the medieval church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photograph of this church
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 359464 5746885
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.855044, 0.959366
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 51′ 18.16″ N, 0° 57′ 33.72″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; appears modern
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. 851
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 3: 233
- Paul, W. Norman, Essex Fonts and Font Covers: Norman to Nineteenth Century, Baldock, Herts.: Egon Publishers, 1986, p. 219
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976, p. 431