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B01: symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil - 8

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 11863MAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels [demolished in 1967]
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 14 km NE of Colchester
Font Location in Church: Reported in the churchyard ca. 1916 [cf. FontNotes] -- Church demolished in 1967
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
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.

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