Manningtree

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11863MAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels [demolished in 1967]
Font Location in Church: Reported in the churchyard ca. 1916 [cf. FontNotes] -- Church demolished in 1967
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
Church Notes: The church was situated on Manningtree’s High Street. It was demolished in the 1960s and the parishes of Manningtree and Mistley were reunited.
Church Address: [NB: address & coordinates given for the site of the disappeared church] High Street, Manningtree, Essex, CO11. United Kingdom
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Manningtree is located off the B1352, 14 km NE of Colchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Additional Comments: abandoned font / disused font: in the churchyard / disappeared?
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manningtree
Font Notes:
Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: In churchyard--octagonal bowl with quatrefoil panels enclosing shields, also plain octagonal stem, 15th-century." [The RCHM (ibid.) informs that the church was built ca. 1616; two other pieces in the churchyard date to the same period of the font -- are they from an older church? another church?]. Bettley & Pevsner (2007) report that the Church of St. Michael and All Angels was demolished in 1967.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 366827 5756735
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.945368, 1.062396
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 56′ 43″ N, 1° 03′ 43″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 587
  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 3: 176