Twinstead
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Whitworth, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 16897TWI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Evangelist
Church Address: Church Road, Twinstead, Essex, CO86BW
Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A131, near Sudbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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The present font is noted in Bettley & Pevsner (2007): "Font. Octagonal, stone inlaid with marble, on a central stem and eight small marble shatfs. Painted wooden cover with elaborate wrought-iron lifting frame, the counterweight in the shape of a dove." [the odd cover system consists of two tall metal poles that rest on the rim of the basin and sustain the font cover and its dove-shaped counterwight in between them]. [NB: several re-buldings have left nothing of the medieval church; we have no information on its font].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are garteful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 342858 5763179
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes; counterweight
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 794-795