Arkesden / Archesdana [Domesday]
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view of font and cover
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
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design element - motifs - beaded-tape
Scene Description: around the upper rim of the basin
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view of church exterior - tower - west portal
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of font in context
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: with the composite font in the centre aisle, towards the back
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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design element - architectural - arch - pointed arch - 4
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11752ARK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Quicksie Hill, Arkesden, Saffron Walden CB11 4HB, UK
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located W of the M11, nr. Clavering, 7 km SW of Saffron Walden, 35 km NW of Chelmsford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Uttlesford
Additional Comments: composite font (said to be a 12thC basin raised on a 13thC base [cf. FontNotes])
Font Notes:
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There are five entries for Arkesden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL4834/arkesden/] [accessed 24 September 2018], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) notes and illustrates the font here, an "undistiguished example of the 13th century", though later in the same source it is described thus: "square tapering bowl of limestone, with beaded edge at the top, possibly 12th-century; square hollow pedestal of clunch, each side pierced with a small moulded and pointed opening, in the middle, small circular shaft, 13th-century." Bettley & Pevsner (2007) date the basin to the possibly the 12th century, and the base to the 13th century.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 304824 5763593
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.98866, 0.157402
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 59′ 19.18″ N, 0° 9′ 26.65″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: square and flat, with decorated top
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 91
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 1: xxx, 2 and pl. opp. p. xxix