Colchester No. 3 / Colecastro / Colecestra

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Christ - Agnus Dei - couchant-regardant - rays of glory

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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design element - motifs - floral - 4-petal

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design element - motifs - floral - 4-petal

Scene Description: notice the large repair at the bottom right side

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design element - motifs - moulding

design element - motifs - panel - trefoiled

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inscription

Scene Description: partial transcription: "[...] qui in fonte / remissione[m] / peccatorum [...]"; probably a version of a Latin baptismal liturgy text

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symbol - chalice - holy wafer - rays of glory

Scene Description: notice the insert repair to the upper rim, probably where a metal staple broke the stone

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symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 4

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Edwards, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2006 by Robert Edwards [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/190578] [accessed 10 February 2012]

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, by the vestry

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © National Monuments Record, English Heritage, 2012

Image Source: B&W photograph [ref. no: AA43/03544] taken in 1943 by Billy Brandt National Monuments Record, English Heritage [http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/detail.aspx?uid=87042] [accessed 10 February 2012]

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view of font cover

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Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph [ref. no: AA43/03544] taken in 1943 by Billy Brandt National Monuments Record, English Heritage [http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/detail.aspx?uid=87042] [accessed 10 February 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11853COL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard at the Hythe [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Church Location: Hythe Hill, Colchester, Essex, CO1 2NP
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located on the N side of Hythe Hill, Colchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Colchester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of this font
Church Notes: Redundant church now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust [www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/Completelistofchurches/St-LeonardattheHythe-Church-Colchester-Essex/] [accessed 10 February 2012]
There are seventeen entries for Colchester [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL9925/colchester/] [accessed 8 June 2018]; a priest is mentioned as lord three times (two in 1066, one in 1086) and "0.5 church lands" is noted in one of the entries, but none of them mentions a church, though there must have some there at the time. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) reports: "Font: octagonal bowl with panelled sides alternately blank shields in quatrefoils and chalice and host, Agnus Dei and flowers, stem with trefoil-headed panels, 15th-century." In Bettley & Pevsner (2007) as a originally from East Donyland "replacing a brick font of 1662". The National Monuments Record, English Heritage [http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/detail.aspx?uid=87042] [accessed 10 February 2012] has a B&W photograph of this font and its cover [ref. no: AA43/03544] taken in 1943 by Billy Brandt in the collection of the same name. The Lost Parish Churches of Essex [http://www22.brinkster.com/barham/LostChurchesofEssex.htm] [accessed 14 June 2010] entry for East Donyland notes: "The old church of St Laurence, East Donyland was demolished in 1838. [...] The original 15th century octagonal font was preserved and purchased for St Leonard's Church, Colchester." [NB: the Churches Conservation Trust claims that the font from the old church at Rowhedge went to St.Leonards-at-the-Hythe [www.visitchurches.org.uk/Assets/Visitortourismdocuments/EssexColchesterStLeonardtheHytheWRG.pdf?1302187816] [accessed 10 February 2012] -- however -- the English Heritage, National Monuments Record entry for this church [http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1123578] [accessed 10 February 2012] states: "Octagonal C15 font originally in East Donyland church, brought to St Leonards in 1840."]. The wooden cover consists of a boxy octagonal platform bearing a Latin inscription, with raised stylised scroll-rib structure above; fleuron finial; appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.884541, 0.922079
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 53′ 4.35″ N, 0° 55′ 19.48″ E
UTM: 31U 356990 5750237

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923