Mount Bures / Bura
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Results: 3 records
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave; the object on the ground, to the left, may be the wooden cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 11865MOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Hall Road, Mount Bures, Essex, CO8 5AS
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 10 km E of Halstead, near the Suffolk border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Lexden
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for [Mount] Bures [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL9032/mount-bures/] [accessed 12 June 2018], neither of which mentions priest or church in it. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) reports: "Font: plain octagonal bowl, with moulded under-edge and plain stem, probably 15th century." The RCHM (ibid.) inventories also a holy-water stoup of the same period: "In S. porch--E. of doorway, with cinquefoiled head, no bowl". The Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 10, 2001) notes: "The church may have been founded in 1059 [...] The church was restored in 1875 by Thomas Harris"; no font is mentioned in the VCH entry. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of this church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.956582, 0.769555
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 57′ 23.69″ N, 0° 46′ 10.4″ E
UTM: 31U 346740 5758559
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-07-16 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923