Bardfield Saling / Little Saling

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design element - motifs - panel - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 October 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2755552] [accessed 23 September 2019]

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design element - motifs - panel - Ogee - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 October 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2755552] [accessed 23 September 2019]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font in context

Scene Description: the font in the context of the west end of the nave and the gallery

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font in context - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 October 2007 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2755552] [accessed 23 September 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11757BAR

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

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: The Street, Bardfiled Saling, Braintree CM7 5ED, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Essex, East

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A120, 8 km WNW of Braintree, 20 km N of Chelmsford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford

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 grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No individual entry for Bardfield Saling found in the Domesday survey. The entry for this church in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) notes: "Font; octagonal bowl with ogee-headed panels, panelled stem, possibly late 15-th century." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TL6861326514] notes: "Parish Church. C14. Said to have been unfinished at the time of the Black Death 1348-9. Consecrated and Chancel added 1380. C17-C20 alterations and additions. [...] Late C15 octagonal Font with ogee headed panels and panelled stem." [NB: the present font appears to have been re-cut or re-tooled]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.9116, 0.45008

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 54′ 41.76″ N, 0° 27′ 0.29″ E

UTM: 31U 324616 5754279

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat

REFERENCES

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