Font - All Saints' Church, Springfield, Essex.
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greysman
N 51° 44.649 E 000° 29.353
31U E 326665 N 5735565
A C13th font just inside the south doorway of this old church.
Waymark Code: WME1J6
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/21/2012
Views: 1
This Late Norman-Early English carved font, c1220, is just inside the church by the main doorway, the traditional place for a font in the Church-of-England. It is square, carved from limestone with foliage and flowers in circular designs, mounted on a plain circular pillar, a decorated square foot, and on a single step with simple edge decoration. Each face is different. It has been described as the best of it kind in Essex and one of the finest in the country.
The church is built of flint and brick rubble. Some of the brick and tile is clearly very old, possibly Roman, and can be found low down in the walls of the nave. The buttresses on the tower are brick-built as is the attached spiral stair to the ringing chamber, built 1884, which acts as an additional buttress. Above the second stage the whole is brick, looking as if the brick-work is a massive repair after partial collapse of the original.
Approximate Age of Artefact: c1220
Relevant Website: Not listed
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