West Tilbury
Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
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Results: 4 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font inside the former church, now a private residence
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: the former church, now a private residence
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11899TIL
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James [redundant since 1980 -- now a private residence]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [now a private residence]
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_James%27_Church,_West_Tilbury
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Church Notes: the church appears to be used as a residence [cf. Essex Churches photos of the interior]
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 2 km NE of Tilbury town, on the N side of the Thames
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Additional Comments: disappeared font? the original font of this church
Font Notes:
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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]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and modern font
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, vol. 4: 170