Beaumont-cum-Moze / Beaumont cum Moze
Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2010
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 16695BEA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard and St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard & St. Mary
Church Location: Church Lane, Beaumont-cum-Moze, Essex, CO160AZ
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B1414, 15 km SW of Harwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford [formerly Rochester?]
Century and Period: 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photograph of the modern font in this church
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The present font at this church consists of an octagonal basin with floral decoration on the sides, raised on a cluster of clonnettes with moulded capitals and bases and an octagonal lower base. It appears Victorian, from the mid-19th century re-building, but the plinth may be medieval, perhaps 14th-century, like the church itself. Bettley & Pevsner (2007) note: "Beaumont and Moze parishes were united in 1768, when St. Mary, Moze, was dem[olished]". [NB: we have no information on the medieval font from either church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 373267 5749418
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat; modern?
REFERENCES
Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007