Little Canfield

INFORMATION

FontID: 16789CAN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Church Lane, off Stortford Road, Little Canfield, Essex, CM6 1SU

Country Name: England

Location: Essex, East

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B1256, 5 km W of Dunmow, 10 km E of Bishop's Stortford, ESE of Stansted Airport

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman

Font Notes: Click to view

Bettley & Pevsner (2007) note the Norman south doorway, and a modern font of 1847 by William Ollett Jun., "Stone, octagonal, with quatrefoils in recessed panels". The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid with decorated sides, probably of the same period as the new font [NB: we have no information on the medieval font]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 314041 5747802

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007