Great Yeldham No. 1

Main image for Great Yeldham No. 1

Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008

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Results: 4 records

BU01: design element - motifs - moulding

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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UB01: design element - motifs - panel

only on five sides of the stem [cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: only on five sides of the stem [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of font and cover in context

on the south side of the nave, west end, by the south doorway
Scene Description: on the south side of the nave, west end, by the south doorway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 11774YEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located about 10 km N of Halstead
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W side of the nave, N side
Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Font Notes:
Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl with moulded lower edge, stem panelled on five sides only, possibly late 15th-century." [NB: whitewashed from top to bottom now [2010]]. The SEAX-Essex Archives Online database of the Essex Records Office [http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/result_details.asp?DocID=65802] [accessed 8 July 2010] notes: "Font cover, Cheancellor and Son, 1907-1908" [probably "Chancellor', late-Victorian restorer from Chelmsford]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1907-1908
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: yes; counterweight?
Notes: octagonal, with tower-like open-work; raisng mechanism [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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