Little Tey

Results: 2 records

BU01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the remaining fragment of the basin underbowl [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: the font visible inside is the modern (?) replacement

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1923

Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923)

Copyright Instructions: PD

INFORMATION

FontID: 11862TEY
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 5 km ENE of Great Coggeshall, 11 km WSW of Colchester
Font Location in Church: Reported in the rectory garden ca. 1916 [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
A fragment of a baptismal is noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "In garden of rectory, lower part of octagonal bowl with moulded under-edge, 15th-century." [NB: the RCHM shows a photograph of the south portal which gives view to the modern (?) font in the west end of the nave]. [NB: the church goes back to Norman times, but we have no information on its earlier font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: fragment
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923