Anstey / Anestei / Anestie / Anestige
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view of font - northeast side
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI
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view of font - northwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Fletcher, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2010 by Adrian Fletcher [www.paradoxplace.com]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - siren - male
Scene Description: on the southeast side
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI
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view of basin
Scene Description: with traces of yellowish paint or wash on it
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI
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view of basin
Scene Description: with traces of yellowish paint or wash on it
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - siren - male
Scene Description: on the northeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Fletcher, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2010 by Adrian Fletcher [www.paradoxplace.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
animal - fabulous animal or monster - siren - male
Scene Description: on the southwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Fletcher, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2010 by Adrian Fletcher [www.paradoxplace.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of basin - southwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Fletcher, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2010 by Adrian Fletcher [www.paradoxplace.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of basin - northeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Fletcher, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2010 by Adrian Fletcher [www.paradoxplace.com]
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - siren - male
Scene Description: on the northwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Adrian Fletcher, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2010 by Adrian Fletcher [www.paradoxplace.com]
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view of church exterior
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI
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view of church exterior
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI
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view of church exterior
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view of church exterior - stained glass window
Scene Description: by Patrick Reyntiens; installed in 2000
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view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: mask
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI
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view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: mask
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI
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view of church interior - alms box
Scene Description: chest
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI
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view of church interior - misericords
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 30 July 2000 by BSI
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view of church interior - misericords
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view of church interior - monument
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view of church interior - monument - detail
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view of church interior - plan
Scene Description: noting the position of the font behind the western-most pillar of the nave, south side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1911
Image Source: digital image of a drawing in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911)
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
Font ID: 00308ANS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-07-30
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: The font at Cambridge St. Peter's
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. George
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side, behind the westernmost pillar
Church Patron Saint(s): St. George
Church Notes: The church has a new stained glass window commissioned from the contemporary artist Patrick Reyntiens, which commemorates the October 1944 crash of the B17 Flying Fortress that killed 10 people at the edge of the churchyard. The new window was installed in June 2000.
Church Address: St Georges End, Anstey, Hertfordshire SG9 0BY
Site Location: Hertfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 10 km SE of Royston, off the B1368.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Edwinstree [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font? (original base was replaced with the present one) / painted font (covered in a yellowish paint or wash) -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for this Anstey [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4032/anstey/] [accessed 11 July 2016], one of which mentions a preist in it but not a church, though there must have been one there. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a noteworthy baptismal font of the Norman period here. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a baptismal font of the late 12th or early 13th century date. There are only two known fonts in England which depict the siren motif: four mermen hold their split fish-tails with their hands. The other example is found in St.Peter's in Cambridge, male sirens in both cases. The area below the basin appears to have been reconstructed or re-cut. The base consists of five uneven columns resting on a round lower base. The plinth is rectangular with kneeling stone. Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertforshire (1911): "Font: square with rounded corners, ornamented with curious figures of two-tailed mermen or figures holding up cloths, late 12th-century." Jenkins (1999) writes: "What these creatures implied to their carvers is unknown. They are of an age that must have seemed impenetrably ancient even to the Gothic era." Listed as Norman font in Tompkins (1929). Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1977): "Font: Very crude Norman with four mermen holding their split tails with both their hands; the design makes a symmetrical pattern along the four sides of the bowl."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Adrian Fletcher, of www.paradoxplace.com, for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 296927 5762570
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.976648, 0.043148
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 58′ 35.93″ N, 0° 2′ 35.33″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 4-6 cm* (18 at the corners)
Diameter (inside rim): 54-55 cm*
Basin Depth: 32 cm*
Basin Total Height: 55 cm*
Height of Base: 53 cm*
Height of Central Column: 44 cm*
Height of Side Columns: 44 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 108 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 124 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 66 x 69 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: Octagonal low pyramid, with metal ornaments and ring handle. The old hinges are still embedded in the rim of the basin.
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 206, ill. on p. 225
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 202
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire, London: Printed for His Majesty's Stationary Office by J. Truscott, 1911, p. 16, 35
- Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing], p. 280-281
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Hertfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977, p. 71
- Tompkins, Herbert Winckworth, Hertfordshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1922, [www.guttenberg.org/files/18252/18252-8.txt]