Chappel / Pontisbright
Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
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Results: 2 records
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2007 by John Whitworth, [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2007 by John Whitworth, [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 16706CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Barnabas [earlier St. John the Baptist]
Church Patron Saints: St. Barnabas [aka Barnabus, Bernabé] [earlier dedication: St. John the Baptist]
Church Location: The Street, Chappel, Essex, CO6 2DD
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A1124, WNW of Colchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Century and Period: 13th century (late?), Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and modern font
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Chappel in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 10, 2001) notes: "The church, then a chapel of Great Tey, was recorded in 1285.[...] By the mid 16th century Chappel [...] seems to have become an independent parish [...] The 19th-century font came from Kelvedon in 1952." The SEAX-EssexArchives Online database [http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/result_details.asp?DocID=26954] [accessed 13 July 2010] has a baptism register for 1813-1857 [ref. D/P 134/1/7] with "At front: note of gift of new font by Revd Charles Dalton to commemorate his fiftieth year in parish, July 1854" [NB: was this the font moved to Chappel?]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 345434 5754249
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-06-16 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.