Strethall

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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

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view of church exterior - south view

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

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

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view of church interior - chancel arch

Scene Description: notice the painted area above the arch

Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

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view of church interior - chancel arch - detail

Scene Description: photographed ca. 2008; notice the former paint above the arche has now been covered

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

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: photographed ca. 2008; notice the former paint above the arche has now been covered

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

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font visible at the west end, beneath the towe

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

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view of church interior - plan

Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11795STR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Country Name: England

Location: Essex, East

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the M11, 5 km WNW of Saffron Walden [Coordinates: 52.0370, 0.1643] [Diocese of Chelmsford]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 12th century (late) [re-cut?], Late Norman? / Transitional? [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font

Church Notes: 11th-century pre-Conquest long-and-short pattern on SW exterior and chancel arch (according to the RCHM). Fine chancel arch, also Anglo-Saxon

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: tapering octagonal bowl on modern central shaft and four smaller shafts alternately round and octagonal, with crudes bases and capitals, late 12th-century." In Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Late C12, a crude tapering bowl on four shafts with C19 central shaft." Noted in The Church of England web site for Strethall [http://www.achurchnearyou.com/strethall-st-mary-the-virgin/] [accessed 21 September 2010]: "The font dates from the 12th Century at which time it may have been recut".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

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