Messing / Messing-cum-Inkworth / Messing and Inkworth

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BBL01: human figure - head

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 16797MES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B1022, SW of Colchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Font Location in Church: inside the church
Century and Period: 19th century, Victorian
Font Notes:
Bettley & Pevsner (2007) note: "Font. Octagonal, late C12, with three shallow blank arches on each side of the bowl. From Messing, 1848; Purbeck marble base by Watts of Colchester, 1930." The Messing Parish website [http://www.messing-and-inworth.org.uk/ChrchHistory.htm] [accessed 15 July 2010] notes: "At the back of the nave is an early 19th century font. Notice the carved heads around the base of the bowl. The original ancient font, was given to Wakes Colne church by a former vicar, Revd. Thomas Henderson, who was also rector of that parish." [cf. Index entry for Wakes Colne]. The Victoria County History (2001) entry reads: "The late-12th-century font, given in 1846 by the rector Thomas Henderson, probably came from his other church at Messing."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-07-15 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007