Wimbish / Wimbeis / Winebisc / Wymbig / Wymbis
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11803WIM
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints, Wimbish
Font Location in Church: In the NE corner of the S porch
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17539805
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Maple Ln, Wimbish, Saffron Walden CB10 2XE, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1799 541619
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km ESE of Saffron Walden
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Uttlesford [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: damaged stoup [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Stoup: In the N.E. corner of the porch--with broken bowl on semi-octagonal shaft, four-centred, hollow-chamfered head, late 15th or early 16th-century." Neither font nor stoup mentioned in Bettley & Pevsner (2007). [NB: the church goes back to Norman times, but we have no information on its medieval font]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 1: 350