Steeple nr. Maldon

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view of church exterior - northeast view

the modern church that replaced the medieval one destroyed in a fire -- Source caption: "St Lawrence Church, Steeple, from the north-east. In the Essex volume of 'The Buildings of England', [...] Pevsner remarks on the eccentric mode of construction of the church walls. The Victorian architect re-cycled building materials from the medieval church that stood here, but used them in a higgledy-piggledy fashion - brick mixed in with stone, pretty much haphazardly."
Scene Description: the modern church that replaced the medieval one destroyed in a fire -- Source caption: "St Lawrence Church, Steeple, from the north-east. In the Essex volume of 'The Buildings of England', [...] Pevsner remarks on the eccentric mode of construction of the church walls. The Victorian architect re-cycled building materials from the medieval church that stood here, but used them in a higgledy-piggledy fashion - brick mixed in with stone, pretty much haphazardly."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stefan Czapski, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2016 by Stefan Czapski [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4991956] [accessed 15 November 2017]
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view of church exterior - south view

the modern church that replaced the medieval one destroyed in a fire
Scene Description: the modern church that replaced the medieval one destroyed in a fire
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Sack, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 April 2010 by Peter Sack [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2015236] [accessed 15 November 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 16890STE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence and All Saints
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence] & All Saints
Church Location: The Street [aka Maldon Rd], Steeple, Essex, CM0 7RJ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located E of Mayland, 10 km SE of Maldon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Wibrihtesherne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church Notes: original church destroyed by fire; re-built 1884
Font Notes:
There are four entries for this Steeple in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL9303/steeple/] [accessed 15 November 2017], none of which mentions priest or church in it. Cox (1909) writes: "The old church (St Laurence and All Saints) was un-happily pulled down in 1882 and a new one erected in the centre of the village ; an old door- way and one window were reused, and the octagonal font bowl is an old one which had long lain in the former churchyard." The entry for this church in Parish Listed Buildings [Listing NGR: TL9346802975] reports: "C15 octagonal font with moulded soffit, moulded base, octagonal stem, moulded capitals, bases and rings to 4 side shafts." The medieval church was destroyed in a fire in the 19th century but a font appears to have survived; a Romanesque pilar piscina is reported in the CRSBI (2017) as having survived as well.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.690632, 0.796695
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 41′ 26.27″ N, 0° 47′ 48.1″ E
UTM: 31U 347710 5728928

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2017-11-15 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.