Ramsey nr. Harwich / Rameseiam / Ramsey and Parkestone

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11866RAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [re-cut & restored], Perpendicular [altered?]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael, Ramsey
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17536942
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Church Hill, Ramsey, Harwich CO125EU , United Kingdom
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B1322, 6 km WSW of Harwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Tendring [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font / re-cut font / restored font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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, vol. 3: 193