Hutton nr. Brentwood / Hutton Poplars
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Scene Description: the modern font and cover [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 16776HUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 19th century, Modern
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Lane, Hutton, Essex, CM13 1SB
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A129, just NE of Brentwood, 30 km from central London
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Additional Comments: moved font? To Mountnessing (the medieval font)
Font Notes:
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Bettley & Pevsner (2007) note: "Font. Round, of polished marble, on a solid base with four attached colonnettes. Tall wooden cover, 1893." The entry for Mountnessing, Essex, in Bettley & Pevsner (ibid.) describes a 15th-century font that was originally "from All Saints, Hutton" [cf. Index entry for Mountnessing for details of this font]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of this modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 317149 5723193
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: English
Inscription Location: around the lower base chamfer
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1893
Material: wood
Notes: tall thin spire on octagonal base [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 499, 604