West Tilbury

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the former church, now a private residence

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - chancel

Scene Description: the former church, now a private residence; the former chancel, now a bedroom; the modern font still inside

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the former church, now a private residence

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font inside the former church, now a private residence

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 11899TIL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James [redundant since 1980 -- now a private residence]

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Country Name: England

Location: Essex, East

Directions to Site: Located 2 km NE of Tilbury town, on the N side of the Thames

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [now a private residence]

Century and Period: , Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and modern font

Church Notes: the church appears to be used as a residence [cf. Essex Churches photos of the interior]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Only a holy-water stoup is noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923), with a destroyed basin, on the N side of the chancel. The present font is modern, probably from the 1880s renovation of the church; it has an octagonal octagonal basin with decorated sides, on clustered columns. [NB: although the fabric of the church goes back to the late 11th or early 12th century, we have no information on the original font of this church -- the former church is now a private residence, but the modern font is still inside, in the former chancel, now a bedroom]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923