Mundon
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the capitals and bases of the colonnettes of the stem
INFORMATION
FontID: 11888MUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [redundant since 1970]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 5 km SSE of Maldon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Norman? / Transitional?
Church Notes: Church was made redundant in 1970; in the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches since 1975
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: square bowl with angles cut off, circular stem with four small octagonal shafts having square moulded capitals and bases, c. 1200, much repaired." The Parish website [http://www.stmarysmaldon.org.uk/mundon.html] [accessed 16 July 2010] notes: "the font (now removed) has been dated to c. 1200". [NB: present whereabouts of this font unknown to BSI, but a tour of the church written by Christine McDonald in 2003 for the "Maldon and Burnham Standard, and reproduced in the Parish website [ibid.] informs: "Within the information compiled for visitors to peruse, is an article that includes the statement that a font from St Mary’s Mundon dating back to 1200 is now sited in another local church (thought to be Latchingdon)"]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted) (angles cut off)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square (angles cut off)
REFERENCES
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923