Latchingdon

INFORMATION

Font ID: 16782LAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Old Parish Church of St. Michael [converted to private residence in 1976]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FonNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26404565
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B1018, SSE of Maldon [Coordinates: 51° 40′ 16.6″ N, 0° 43′ 34.06″ E 51.671278, 0.726128] [Diocese of Chelmsford]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
The SEAX Essex Archives Online [http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/result_details.asp?DocID=776580] [accessed 13 July 2010] lists a "Parish Book kept by vicars of Latchingdon" in which, on pp. 15-16 "plans of new font and 'ugly wooden font ... taken down and burnt March 15th 1849'"; it also mentions a "new font presented to old church 1909". [NB: we have no information on the original font of Old St. Michael's, but it may have been ca. 1618, the date of the old church]. Bettley & Pevsner (2007) report the old church with a nave of the 14th century; derelict and restored through the 19th century, it was de-consecrated and turned into a private dwelling in 1976 -- we have no information on its medieval font]

REFERENCES

  • Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 522