London No. 59

Results: 8 records

information

Scene Description: the church is now an ecumenical centre brokering peace [www.st-helens.org.uk] [accesed 15 July 2013]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: door leading into the church from the east yard

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church exterior - west façade

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2004 by ChrisO [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_ethelburga_bishopsgate.jpg] [accessed 15 July 2013]

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view of church interior - alms box

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - monument

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - monument - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of stoup

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 13622LON

Object Type: Stoup

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Ethelburga-the-Virgin within Bishopsgate

Church Patron Saints: St. Ethelburga [aka Ædilburh, Æthelburh of Barking, Tata]

Country Name: England

Location: Greater London, South East

Directions to Site: Located near St. Helen's Place, on Bishopsgate St., City

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 17th century(early?), Restoration

Church Notes: first documented reference of this church ca. 1250, but previous church here may have been Saxon; "Its foundation date is unknown, but it was first recorded in 1250 as the church of St Adelburga-the-Virgin." [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Ethelburga%27s_Bishopsgate [accessed 15 July 2013]]

Font Notes: Click to view

Allen (1839?) notes: ''the font, which stands in a pew in the middle aisle, consists of a circular basin, sustained upon a terminal column, ornamented with the peculiar panelling, characteristic of the works of the early part of the seventeenth century.'' [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]. There is a small wall-mounted stoup probably 15th-century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.515525, -0.082119

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 30′ 55.89″ N, 0° 4′ 55.63″ W

UTM: 30U 702450 5711193

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Allen, Thomas, The History and Antiquities of London, Wsetminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent, London: published by George Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, [1839?]