High Roding / High Roothing
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font in context
Scene Description: at the southwest corner of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11827ROD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (early?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints, High Roding
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the tower, S side
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17533759
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Road, High Roding, Dunmow CM6 1PA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1245 231795
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 16 km NW of Chelmsford
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl with a quatrefoil enclosing a shield on each face and a moulded under side, panelled stem and moulded base, early 15th-century." In Bettley & Pevsner (2007).
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of this church
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and plain; modern
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 493
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 2: 134