Ramsey nr. Harwich / Ramsey and Parkestone

Results: 4 records

B01: symbol - shield - blank

Scene Description: probably re-cut [cf. Font notes]

BU01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

LB01: design element - motifs - floral

UB01: design element - motifs - panel

INFORMATION

FontID: 11866RAM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located on the B1362, 6 km WSW of Harwich [Diocese of Chelmsford]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century [re-cut & restored], Perpendicular [altered?]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl, mostly recut, octagonal stem and moulded base, 15th-century." The British Listed Buildings database [http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-120292-parish-church-of-st-michael-ramsey-and-p] [accessed 20 July 2010] reports: "The font is partly C15, partly restored, with a recut octagonal bowl with a shield in each face and a moulded soffit, a panelled octagonal stem, and a moulded base with carved flowers." The RCHM (ibid.) inventories also an undated holy-water stoup in the S. porch: "with chamfered jambs and two-centred head" [no separate entry in this Index]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
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