Borley
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2006 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the modern font at the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2006 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2006 by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 16699BOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 3 km NW of Sudbury, 40 km NNE of Chelmsford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Century and Period: 11th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of [www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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'The Suffolk Chronicle & Mercury' (issue of 4 June 1937) [reprinted in http://www.foxearth.org.uk/PocketHistoryofBorley.htm] [accessed 15 June 2010] reports a new font in this old church. The modern font is illustrated in the Essex Churches website [www.essexchurches.info] [accessed 15 June 2010]. The present font, consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with enamel (?) inserts on alternate sides, raised on an octagonal stem with traceried sides and a moulded lower base, is modern. [NB: the nave may date to the late Anglo-Saxon or early Norman period, but we have no information on the earlier font(s)]