Font, Church of St Mary the Virgin, Church Street, Wendens Ambo, Essex. CB11 4JZ - Stone Church Artefacts on Waymarking.com

The Grade I listed Church of St Mary the Virgin dates from the latter part of the C11th and comprises a west tower, nave with north and south aisles and a chancel. It is of flint rubble, the tower is C11th, having three bell openings with colonettes. The semi-circular arch of the west door is entirely of Roman tiles with a single storey tympanum. The tower has a later embattled parapet and is surmounted by a slender spire, a Hertfordshire Spike. The nave also is Norman but there was considerable restoration in the late C19th when the north aisle and south porch were rebuilt. The south aisle is C13th and the clerestorey to the nave is C15th. Amongst roof timbers are C15th king posts along with the modern timbering of the roof. The chancel is C13th and has two cusped lancet windows. The most impressive internal features, to my mind, are the remains of a C14th cycle of wall paintings depicting episodes in the life of St Margaret, the martyr of Antioch.

Just inside the south door of the church and adjacent to one of the south aisle pillars is this stone font, of octagonal form on an octagonal pillar and a top-chamfered square base. It was made c1400 and shows signs of repair/cementing together of the bowl which is lead lined. There is no decoration. The font cover is of hemi-spherical form, of timber and was made c.1600. It has eight shaped ribs running up from an annular base to the spherical finial at the apex and between are pieces of (randomly) shaped, thin timber panelling rather haphazardly nailed into position.

The given coordinates are for the South Porch.

Approximate Age of Artefact: c1400. Relevant Website: Not listed

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