Chipping Ongar No. 1 / Angra

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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

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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

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2011 by Simon Knott [www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/6295617887/] [accessed 26 March 2012]

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view of font and cover - north side

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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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INFORMATION

FontID: 16707CHI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin of Tours
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: High St, Chipping Ongar, Essex, CM5 9JJ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1277 362173
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 10 km NW of Brentwodd, 11 km SE of Harlow
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Ongar
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.7039, 0.2463
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 42′ 14.04″ N, 0° 14′ 46.68″ E
UTM: 31U 309729 5731696

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-. Accessed: 2010-06-16 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007