Fordham nr. Colchester / For[de]ham

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Whitworth [www.essexchurches.info/church.asp?p=Fordham] [accessed 18 April 2012]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2008 by Andrew Hill [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/736415] [accessed 14 June 2018]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2008 by Andrew Hill [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/736394] [accessed 14 June 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the modern font and cover at the far end

Image Source: digital photograph in www.camulos.com/fordham/church.htm [accessed 18 April 2012]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the cover on the ground, to the left of the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph in www.camulos.com/fordham/church.htm [accessed 18 April 2012]

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18000FOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Church Road, Fordham, Colchester CO6 3NN, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Essex, East

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A1124, NW of Colchester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford

Historical Region: Hundred of Lexden

Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Whitworth, of www.essexchurches.info, for his photograph of this church

Church Notes: "The church of ALL SAINTS, Church Road, the invocation recorded in 1516" [cf. VCH entry in FootNotes]

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There are four entries for this Fordham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL9228/fordham/] [accessed 14 June 2018], none of which mentions priest or church in it. The Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 10, 2001) notes: "William I [1086-1087] gave Fordham church to Bec abbey in Normandy in 1087 [...] The nave is probably 11th- or early 12th-century, but the church was largely rebuilt in the earlier 14th century"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish. The present font, an octagonal basin on a pedestal base, is modern and located at the west end of the nave. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TL9275028087] mentions no font in it. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font of this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.91792, 0.80132

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 55′ 4.51″ N, 0° 48′ 4.75″ E

UTM: 31U 348792 5754193

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-04-18 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.