Leigh-on-Sea / Legra
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Results: 5 records
B01: angel - demi-figure - holding shield - 4?
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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B02: animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4?
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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LBF01: human figure? - 8?
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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view of font and cover in context
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16787LEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Clement
Church Patron Saints: St. Clement
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A13, W of Southend-on-Sea; the church is located just S of Broadway W, near the coast, S of the A13 [aka London Road] [Coordinates: 51° 32′ 33″ N, 0° 39′ 12.6″ E 51.5425, 0.6535] [Diocese of Chelmsford]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, opposite the S entrance
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: was a 1871 copy of the Prittlewell font in tis church? [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of a general late-Medieval design predominant in East Anglia, consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with demi-angels holding shields, alternating with seated lions (?); angel heads or flowers (?) on angles of the underbowl; standing figures (?) against the stem; octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid, with decorated sides, raised arrises and metal ball finial; appears modern. [NB: In his description of the church at Leigh [Leigh-on-Sea?], Benton (1867-1888) reports a copy of the font at Pritwell made for the church at Leigh, which "has on one of its panels the badge of England and Arragon [sic], the rose and pomegranate grafted, which denoted the period of its execution". It cannot be the present font]. [NB: Leigh-on-Sea is part of Southend-on-Sea; the latter has no early fonts in its several churches]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Benton, Philip, The History of Rochford Hundred, [together with...], Rochford: A. Harrington, 1867-1888