Little Canfield
INFORMATION
Font ID: 16789CAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Lane, off Stortford Road, Little Canfield, Essex, CM6 1SU
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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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, p. 546