Font @ St.Peter's Church - Great Totham, Essex
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greysman
N 51° 46.008 E 000° 41.816
31U E 341082 N 5737610
Located in the traditional position of a font in an Anglican Church, just inside the main entrance door.
Waymark Code: WMHMWK
Location: United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/24/2013
Views: 2
The Church of St.Peter in Great Totham is some 1km from the centre of the southern part of the village south-east along Hall Road. It is Grade II* listed having a chancel and nave of C13th or C14th build. The north aisle, vestry and organ chamber, south vestry and porch are C19th and there are other C19th restorations and a rebuilt bell-turret containing a ring of six bells. The walls are of flint rubble, puddingstone, freestone and oolite, whilst the roofs are red plain tiled with terracotta finials. The bell-turret has a shingle clad spire.
The font is late Victorian/early C20th design, a circular bowl with an inscribed rim, mounted on four shafts with moulded capitals and bases and a square centre column. The whole mounted on a square stone step. It has a wooden cover which is attached to a conical-shaped wrought iron hoist on a counterbalance arrangement. The inscription round the rim states:- I BELIEVE IN ONE BAPTISM FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS, an extract from the Christian Creed. The font is placed immediately to the left, west, of the main south doorway to the church, the traditional place for it, and immediately in front of the raised platform for the bell ringing area.
The co-ordinates given are for the south porch.
Approximate Age of Artefact: 1900
Relevant Website: Not listed
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