Loughton nr. London / Lochintuna / Lukinton / Lukintune

INFORMATION

Font ID: 16369LOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas [demolished in 1840s]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: The disappeared church was located near Loughton Hall -- Loughton is on the London underground, Central Line, 21 km NE of Charing Cross
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Ongar
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
The Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 4, 1956) notes: "The original parish church of St. Nicholas stood beside Loughton Hall. […] After the building of the new parish church of St. John in 1846 most of the old church was demolished, but the chancel was preserved as a mortuary chapel until 1877 when it also was removed." [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the old font from that church -- the present churches of Loughton: St. John the Baptist, St. Mary the Virgin, St. Edmund of Canterbury and St. Thomas Moore are all modern and have modern fonts]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 297549 5726101

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.