Hadstock No. 1
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view of church interior - plan
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: engraving in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11776HAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Botolph
Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NNE of Saffron Walden
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: Notable cruciform church of the 11th century, pre-Conquest, possibly erected by Canute ca. 1020 to commemorate victory over Edmund Ironside at Assandun -- the RCHM (Essex, 1916-1923, vol. 1: 145) notes the presence of a now covered well, known as St. Botolph's well, in the churchyard
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: square bowl with chamfered angles, circular stem, square chamfered plinth, probably late 12th or early 13th-century, much scraped and restored." The British Listed Buildings database [http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-121984-church-of-st-botolph-hadstock] [accessed 8 July 2010], however, notes: "font with a C14 bowl on a stem and base which is probably of Saxon origin. The font cover is C17-C18." The RCHM entry (ibid.) notes also the font cover: "with central post, having turned knob, supported by bracket-shaped boards, probably 17th or early 18th-century."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th / 18th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [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