Mistley / Mistley-Thorn
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Scene Description: the 19th-century replacement font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 16800MIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Michael [formerly St. Mary]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Michael
Church Location: New Road, Mistley, Essex, CO11 1ER
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located 1 km ESE of Manningtree, 18 km NE of Colchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Century and Period: Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photograph of the modern font
Font Notes:
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White's Directory of 1848 [www.historyhouse.co.uk/placeM/essexm15a.html] [accessed 10 Oc tober 2011] notes: "The old parish church (St. Mary,) stood nearly a mile south-east of the village, and its porch is still preserved and fitted up for the performance of the burial service. Richard Rigby, Esq., who died at Mistley Hall, in 1732, directed his executors to rebuild the parish church". Of this Georgian church only the towers and the font [cf. infra] remain. Bettley & Pevsner (2007) report two fonts in this church: "Small stone basin on baluster from the 1735 church, as well as the massive one of 1870, alabaster on dwarf columns of serpentine." [NB: we have no information on the original font from the medieval church replaced by the 1735 building]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 368101 5756549
REFERENCES
Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007