Beauchamp Roding

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/964997] [accessed 28 March 2012]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/965011] [accessed 28 March 2012]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the top of the modern font is visible towards the back (west), on the left (south) side, by the south doorway

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/965018] [accessed 28 March 2012]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/965033] [accessed 28 March 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16694BEA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Botolph

Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]

Church Location: Beauchamp Roding, Essex, CM5 0PG

Country Name: England

Location: Essex, East

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B184, 8 km from Chipping Ongar

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 4, 1956) notes: "The dedication suggests that there was a church at Beauchamp Roding before the Norman Conquest [...] The nave is built on an 11th- or 12th-century plan but the present structure probably dates from the 14th century"; the VCH entry does not mention a font in it. The present font is located towards the west end of the nave, on the south side; it consists of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides and a moulded underbowl chamfer; raised on a plain broad octagonal stem, and a moulded lower base also octagonal; the whole font is whitewashed; it is of a design that is difficult to date, especially if it has been re-cut; it could be 15th century or 19th century. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; probably Victorian. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.763749, 0.285253

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 45′ 49.49″ N, 0° 17′ 6.91″ E

UTM: 31U 312668 5738249

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-06-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.