Layer Marney
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11860LAY
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(early?), Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary, Layer Marney
Font Location in Church: In the S porch
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17582889
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Layer Marney, Colchester CO5 9UX, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1621 815260
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B1022, 3-4 km ENE of Tiptree, 11 km SW of Colchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Winstree [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font: the original font of this 16th-century temple
Font Notes:
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Only a holy-water stoup is inventoried in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Stoup: In S. porch--recess with four centred-head, early 16th-century, basin destroyed." [NB: a font is reported in the church ca. 1866 in Wilson's Gazetteer, probably a modern one; the fabric of the church goes back to the 14th century, but we have no information on the original font of this church]
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. 3: 187
- Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872