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B01: Apostle or saint - St. Margaret of Antioch - with dragon
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B02: Apostle or saint - St. Christopher and Christ-child
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B03: Apostle or saint - St. George and the dragon
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B04: Apostle or saint - St. Catherine of Alexandria - with wheel
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B05: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Thomas
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B06: Apostle or saint - St. John the Baptist
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B07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary
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B08: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Gabriel
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BU01: angel - holding musical instrument - type of bagpipe?
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BU02: angel - holding musical instrument - zither?
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BU03: angel - holding musical instrument - type of bagpipe and cross
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BU04: angel - holding musical instrument - harp
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BU05: angel - holding musical instrument - baton?
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BU06: angel - holding musical instrument - type of lute?
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BU07: angel - holding musical instrument - type of bagpipe
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BU08: angel - holding musical instrument - type of lute
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: with the "Plain cover, 1979, by Riley and Glanfield carved by Sigfried Pietzch" [cf. FontNotes]
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view of font in context - southwest side
![with the "Plain cover, 1979, by Riley and Glanfield carved by Sigfried Pietzch" [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1161027003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: with the "Plain cover, 1979, by Riley and Glanfield carved by Sigfried Pietzch" [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2006 by John Salmon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary,_Ware,_Herts_-_East_end_-_geograph.org.uk_-_367992.jpg] [accessed 27 October 2016]
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view of font and cover
![the font displayed with the late-1840s Gothic style cover carved by Philip Wynne [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1060719001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font displayed with the late-1840s Gothic style cover carved by Philip Wynne [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1911
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911)
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view of font
view of font
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view of basin
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Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911)
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view of church exterior - south view - detail
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view of church exterior - southwest end
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the font at the far [west] end](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1161027002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font at the far [west] end
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font cover
![Placed on a window sill is the late-1840s Gothic style cover carved by Philip Wynne [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/WAR0008621_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Placed on a window sill is the late-1840s Gothic style cover carved by Philip Wynne [cf. FontNotes]
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view of font cover
![the late-1840s Gothic style cover carved by Philip Wynne [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1060719002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the late-1840s Gothic style cover carved by Philip Wynne [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H.M.S.O., 1911
Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01060WAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-07-30
Font Date: ca. 1380?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (late?), Early Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: West Street, Ware, Hertfordshire SG12 9EG
Site Location: Hertfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A10/A1170, about 10 km WNW of Harlow, ENE of Hertford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Braughing [aka Brauging]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Ware [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3514/ware/] [accessed 26 October 2016]; it mentions a priest but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. Gough (1792) writes: "The font at Ware is octagon, charged with whole length figures of the Salutation, St. John the Baptist, St. James the Less, St. Catherine, St. George, St. Christopher, St. Margaret and the dragon; and between the compartments busts of angels hold the instruments of the passion and of music." In Poole (1842), after Gough, with reference to the 'Antiquarian Itinerary, vol. i. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "an antique font in the later English style" in this church. Illustrated in Clutterbuck (1815-1827). Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as "the best 15th-cent. font of the county [i.e., Herts.]" Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911): "Font: elaborately carved, of c. 1380; octagonal bowl, with panelled sides, containing figures in high relief representing the Annunciation (in two panels), St. Margaret and the dragon, St. Christopher and the Christ Child, St. George and the dragon, St. Katherine, St. James, and St. John the Baptist; the moulded panels have crocketted labels; at the angles, half-figures of angels (four with musical instruments and four with emblems of the Passion), behind them small crocketted pinnacles; stem, panelled with quatrefoils; base, moulded, and enriched with floral ornament." The Victoria County History (Hertford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "Hugh de Grentmesnil, who founded the monastery of St. Evroul in Normandy, gave the church of Ware and the chapel of Thundridge with the tithes and 2 carucates of land to the monks there. [...] The church was attached to the priory of Ware founded as a cell to St. Evroul. [...] The [present] church, consisting of chancel, nave and transepts, was probably erected in the 13th century [...] The font is a fine example of the work of about 1380; the bowl is octagonal, and each side has a sunk and moulded arched panel with crocketed label and contains a figure in high relief. The figures represent the Annunciation (two panels), St. Margaret, St. Christopher, St. George, St. Katherine, St. James and St. John the Baptist; at each angle are half figures of angels, four with emblems of the Passion and four with musical instruments; behind each angle is a crocketed pinnacle. Each face of the stem has a square quatrefoiled panel; the base is moulded and is enriched with a running floral ornament." Tompkins (1922) notes: "octagonal font (temp. Henry IV)" [i.e., 1399-1413]. Tyrrell-Green (1928) writes high praise of this font: "There is no more delicately finished and exquisite figure-sculpture belonging to this -or to any other- period of English art than that which is found upon the font at Ware (Herts) [...]. In this splendid octagonal font each side of the bowl is occupied by a recessed and crocketed ogee arch, containing a figure or subject. The figures depicted are St. Christopher carrying the infant Christ, St. George slaying the Dragon, St. Catherine with sword and her characteristic wheel, St. James in pilgrim's garb, St. John Baptist, St. Margaret of Antioch, and on the remaining sides figures of the Blessed Virgin and the Archangel Gabriel making together the one subject of the Annunciation. A specially charming feature of the design is the row of demi-angels at the lower rim of the bowl. These are placed at the angles, and bear alternately emblems of our Lord's Passion and musical instruments." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1977): "Font, later C14; the most richly decorated example in the county; octagonal, of stone, with quatrefoil panels on the short stem and on the big bowl figures of the Virgin and the Archangel Gabriel, St Margaret, St Christopher, St George, St George, St Katherine, St James, and St John the Baptist. Between them demi-figures of angels alternatively carrying musical instruments and Instruments of the Passion. The carving is rather coarse abd stocky." On-site notes: octagonal mounted baptismal font; the broad stem of the base has a large quatrefoil motif on each side and the octagonal lower base has abraid with flowers in its openings on the upper part, otherwise plain; the plinth is octagonal with kneeling stone; there are two font lids: the one in use now is a modern octagonal one, flat and with a handle; on the window sill there is a 19th-century tall one no longer in use. [NB: the entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL3568014430] (1950) notes on the covers: "Plain cover, 1979, by Riley and Glanfield carved by Sigfried Pietzch, replacing elaborate late 1840s Gothic style cover carved by Philip Wynne, now displayed in north aisle."]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 704492 5744306
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.812136, -0.033358
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 48′ 43.69″ N, 0° 2′ 0.09″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 14 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 61 cm
Basin Depth: 32 cm
Height of Basin Side: 50 cm
Basin Total Height: 50 cm
Height of Base: 52 cm
Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 36 x 50 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 102 cm
Font Height (with Plinth): 122 cm
Trapezoidal Basin: 90 x 95 cm (min.&max. diagonals of the octagon)
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1)19th cent. -- 2)modern
Material: wood (both)
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. font notes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Clutterbuck, Robert, The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford : compiled from the best printed authorities and original records [...], London: Printed by and for Nichols, Son, and Bentley [...], 1815-1827, vol. 3: plate
- Cook, G.H., English Mediaeval Parish Church, London: Phoenix House, 1954
- Cox, John Charles J., English Church Fittings Furniture and Accessories, London: B.T. Batsford, 1922, p. 19
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 202
- Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003, p. 203-204
- Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 195
- 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. 17, 227
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51377] [accessed 14 March 2007]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Hertfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977, p. 23, 377 and pl. opp. p. 227
- Poole, George Ayliffe, The Appropriate Character of Church Architecture, Leeds; London: T.W. Green; Rivington, Burns, and Houlston and Stoneman, 1842, p. 71
- Tompkins, Herbert Winckworth, Hertfordshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1922, [www.guttenberg.org/files/18252/18252-8.txt]
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 95-96 and fig. 64