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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 basin

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 east

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_-_367985.jpg] [accessed 27 October 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the far [west] end

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view of font

Image Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 64)

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the font displayed with the late-1840s Gothic style cover carved by Philip Wynne [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911)

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Scene Description: with the "Plain cover, 1979, by Riley and Glanfield carved by Sigfried Pietzch" [cf. FontNotes]

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Scene Description: the late-1840s Gothic style cover carved by Philip Wynne [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911)

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view of font cover

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 in context - southwest side

Scene Description: with the "Plain cover, 1979, by Riley and Glanfield carved by Sigfried Pietzch" [cf. FontNotes]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01060WAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: West Street, Ware, Hertfordshire SG12 9EG

Country Name: England

Location: Hertfordshire, East

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]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Date: ca. 1380?

Century and Period: 14th century (late?), Early Perpendicular

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.812136, -0.033358

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 48′ 43.69″ N, 0° 2′ 0.09″ W

UTM: 30U 704492 5744306

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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-. Accessed: 2016-10-26 00:00:00. 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

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

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003

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; r["References"]

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

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Hertfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977

Poole, George Ayliffe, The Appropriate Character of Church Architecture, Leeds; London: T.W. Green; Rivington, Burns, and Houlston and Stoneman, 1842

Tompkins, Herbert Winckworth, Hertfordshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1922

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928