Chipping Ongar No. 1 / Angra
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view of font and cover - north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/962673] [accessed 26 March 2012]
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view of font and cover - southeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2011 by Simon Knott [www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/6295658203/] [accessed 26 March 2012]
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design element - architectural - tower - square tower - 4
Scene Description: one at each corner of the basin; note the flying buttresses stemming from the sides of the towers
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2011
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 October 2011 by Simon Knott [www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/6295658203/] [accessed 26 March 2012]
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design element - architectural - window - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: a pair on each side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2011
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 October 2011 by Simon Knott [www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/6295658203/] [accessed 26 March 2012]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2011 by Simon Knott [www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/6295617887/] [accessed 26 March 2012]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 16707CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Martin of Tours
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Address: High St, Chipping Ongar, Essex, CM5 9JJ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1277 362173
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 10 km NW of Brentwodd, 11 km SE of Harlow
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Ongar
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for [Chipping] Ongar [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL5503/chipping-ongar/] [accessed 18 March 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Neither the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923) nor the VCH (1956) or Pevsner (1976) report a baptismal font at St. Martin's, but Bettley & Pevsner (2007) do: "Font. C14, found and erected on a new base in 1963. Square, with corner pillars and two cusped panels on each face." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 4, 1956) informs: "there has been a church at Chipping Ongar since about 1100 if not earlier". [NB: we have no information on the earlier font]. [cf. Index entry for Chipping Ongar No. 2 for a medieval stoup listed for this church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 309729 5731696
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.7039, 0.2463
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 42′ 14.04″ N, 0° 14′ 46.68″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal platform with four ribs around a centre turmed pivot; gilded and painted; modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 233