White Colne
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view of church exterior - northwest end
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2007 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2007 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the modern font at the southwest corner of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2007 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 11870COL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew [formerly All Saints]
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew [earlier dedication: All Saints]
Church Location: Boley Road, White Colne, Essex, CO6 2QB
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 6 km E of Halstead
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Lexden
Century and Period: 11th century (late?), Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and modern font.
There are eight entries for [Earls, Wakes and White] Colne [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/earls-wakes-and-white-colne/] [accessed 13 June 2018], none of which mentions priest or church in it. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: In churchyard--plain octagonal bowl, mediaeval." The Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 10, 2001) notes: "Architectural evidence indicates that there was a church in the late 11th century [...] The font was apparently replaced c. 1760 and again in 1870". The VCH (ibid.) does not mention the churchyard font. [NB: we have no information on the original font; the modern font has carved and painted panels on every other side of the octagonal basin; raised on an octagonal pedestal base with trefoiled panels on every other side, a splaying lower base and a plinth, both octagonal and plain; the font cover consists of a flat octagonal wooden platform on which are scroll ribes with crockerts, all done in metal; the font is located inside the church, at the west end of the nave, on the south side].
COORDINATES
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood and metal,
oak and iron?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-06-22 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
