Great Canfield
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Scene Description: modern (Victorian?) font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
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view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: the modern font can be seen inside, to the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
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 and east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11817CAN
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Great Canfield
Font Location in Church: In the W wall of the N doorway
Church Wikidata: https://dag.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahabali_kɔligu:St._Mary%27s_church,_Great_Canfield,_Essex_-_geograph.org.uk_-_155348.jpg
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Great Canfield, Dunmow CM6 1JT, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1245 231795
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SW of Great Dunmow
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Additional Comments: disappeared font? the original font(s) of this church
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Stoup: In nave--externally in wall W. of N. doorway, part of a rough basin hollowed out of the front of the jamb." A modern square Victorian font stands at the west end of the nave, just inside the south door. Bettley & Pevsner (2007) identify this modern font as having been introduced in Frederic Chancellor's renovation of the 1870s. [NB: the RCHM does not report an early font in this chiefly Norman church; we have no information on the medieval font]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 397
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 2: 91and pls. between p. 92-93