Little Horkesley
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info/church.asp?p=Little Horkesley] [accessed 19 April 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info/church.asp?p=Little Horkesley] [accessed 19 April 2012]
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view of church interior - north aisle - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info/church.asp?p=Little Horkesley] [accessed 19 April 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11842HOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul [formerly St. Peter]
Church Location: Vinesse Road, Little Horkesley, Essex, CO6 4DB
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A134, 3 km SW of Nayland, 8 km NNW of Colchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Lexden
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of this church
No entry found for Little Horkesley in the Domesday survey. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) reports: "Font: plain octagonal bowl, stem and base on one step; remains of red colour; hard limestone, 15th-century. Font cover: of oak (covered with modern paint) in three stages; octagonal base with cresting, lowest stage with traceried projections; middle stage with canopied niches divided by buttresses and having pinnacles and crocketed finials; top stage with range of crocketed gables and above them a central corcketed spire; early 16th-century, partly restored." The Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 10, 2001) notes: "The church, which was granted to Little Horkesley priory at its foundation c. 1127, was both conventual and parochial until the Dissolution [...] The medieval church, dedicated to St. Peter c. 1127, and to SS. Peter and Paul c. 1190, was struck by a landmine in 1940 and completely destroyed", but the 15th-century font survived. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of this church]
COORDINATES
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 16th century (early) [much restored]
Material:
wood,
oak
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-07-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923
