Belchamp Otten / Belchamp Otton

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Results: 6 records

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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square - 8

Scene Description: one of them has been hacked off [cf, Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2006 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

BU01: design element - motifs - floral - 8

Scene Description: on the sides of the underbowl chamfer

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2006 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

R01: design element - patterns - crenellated

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2006 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

UB01: design element - motifs - panel - traceried

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2006 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2006 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2006 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 11758BEL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Ethelbert and All Saints

Church Patron Saints: St. Ethelbert [aka Æthelberht] & All Saints

Country Name: England

Location: Essex, East

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A131, 7 km W of Sudbury, 36 km NNE of Chelmsford [Coordinates: 52° 2′ 40.56″ N, 0° 37′ 33.6″ E 52.0446, 0.626] [Diocese of Chelmsford]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

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

Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font; octagonal, quatrefoil panelled bowl, with embattled rim and moulded and carved lower edge, panelled stem, 15th-century, partly defaced." In Bettley & Pevsner (2007) with date in the 15th century. The 'defacing' mentioned in the RCHM refers to one of the sides of the basin having had its carving hacked or chiselled off almost entirely, to the point that it looks unfinished; why was it done? A tight fit at one point? The octagonal wooden cover is a low pyramid, almost flat; appears old: 17th-18th century?

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-18th century?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: an almost flat octagonal pyramid; may be 17th or 18th century

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