Earls Colne / Coles [Domesday] / Colne / Colun / Wakes Colne / White Cone
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Results: 2 records
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info/church.asp?p=Earls Colne] [accessed 17 April 2012]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info/church.asp?p=Earls Colne] [accessed 17 April 2012]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 16720EAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century (mid?), Pre-Conquest
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: High Street, Earls Colne, Essex, CO6 2RG
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A1124, just E of Halstead, 15 km W of Colchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Lexden
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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There are eight entries for [Earls, Wakes and White] Colne [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/earls-wakes-and-white-colne/] [accessed 13 June 2018], none of which mentions priest or church in it. The Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 10, 2001) notes: "The minster church at Colne, served by two priests and a deacon c. 1040, [...] was presumably at Earls Colne [...] Names of priests of Colne are known from c. 1040, and the church seems to have been regularly served in the Middle Ages"; the VCH (ibid.) also notes a number of renovations to the building, including two major ones in the 19th century; there is no mention of a font in the VCH, though it is likely to have one from the Victorian period [NB: we have no information on its medieval font]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of this church
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 341998 5755525
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.