Widdington

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

Font ID: 17006WID

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Medieval

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin

Church Address: Church Lane, Widdington, Essex, CB11 3SF

Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off the M11, near Saffron Walden, 32 km S of Cambridge, 8 km N of Stansted airport

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford

Additional Comments: disappeared font?

Font Notes: Click to view

The present baptismal font, octagonal, with carved panels on the basin and traceried ones on the stem, is Victorian [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to the 12th century, but we have no information on its medieval font]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photographs of church and modern font

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 310206 5760318

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal flat and plain, with Latin cross finial