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B01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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B02: human figure - seated - 4
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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BU01: angel - demi-figure - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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BU02: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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UB01: design element - architectural - buttress - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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UB02: Apostle or saint? - 8?
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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UB03: design element - architectural - canopy - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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view of church exterior - bell-cote
Scene Description: probably from the 18th century
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view of church exterior - north view
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: now with the reinforcing metal support
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11751WRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 9 km W of Harwich
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to John Whitworh, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font
Church Notes: noteworthy detached bell-cote in the shape of a roofed cage
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl with panelled sides, each carved with an evangelistic symbol or a seated saint, all defaced; underside of bowl with half-angels at the angles and rosettes between them, buttressed stem with defaced figures under canopies, 15th-century." In Pevsner (1976) and in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with deliberately defaced figures of the Evangelists and their symbols." [NB: the whole base is in a poor state and the font is now [2010] reinforced with an open metal support all around.]
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; modern
REFERENCES
Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Essex, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976