Hatford / Hafford / Hatteford / Haufordia / Hautford / Hawtford / Heraford / Hevaford

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: the former new church of the Holy Trinity; deconsecrated in 1972; now a private residence -- Source caption: "Built in 1873. Now a private residence."

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: the medieval chapel of St. George; in ruins for many years, it is now restored to religious use; on the left, the manor house

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2006 by User Ballista [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hatford_ii.JPG] [accessed 10 November 2011]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the old font shown in the interior of the Holy Trinity Church at the time [ca, 1914]; when this new church was deconsecrated the font was moved back to St. George's, the original Norman church

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Image Source: B&W photograph by Walton Adams & Sons, Reading, in Keyser (1914)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01307HAR
Church/Chapel: Church of St. George [aka St. George's Chapel]
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: Hatford, Oxfordshire, SN7 8QQ
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the B4508, near Stanford-in-the-Vale and Goosey, 22 kms NE of Swindon, 30 km WSW of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford [formerly in the Diocese of Salisbury]
Historical Region: formerly Berkshire -- Hundred of Ganfield
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman? / Transitional?
There is an entry for Hatford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU3394/hatford/] [accessed 4 June 2015]; it mentions a church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a noteworthy baptismal font of the Early English period here. Noted and illustrated in Keyser (1914-1915), who informs: "The ancient Norman font [...] has been moved into the new Church [cf. infra]. It is a very large plain circular bowl, and is now supported on engaged shafts" [NB: the supporting base a new addition]. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "There was a church here at the time of the Domesday Survey. [...] The [present] building is probably substantially of 12thcentury date". The VCH (ibid.) reports a medieval font in the modern church of the Holy Trinity nearby: "The old font has a massive circular bowl chamfered on the edges, and perhaps of the 12th century; the stem is modern." The Parish web site [www.stdenyschurchstanford.org.uk/New-to-The-Area/other-churches.html] [accessed 10 November 2011] reports the Norman font is back inside the St. George's church [NB: a Wikipedia article [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatford] [accessed 10 November 2011] reads: "Hatford has had two Church of England parish churches. After serving the village for almost a century, the later church of the Holy Trinity became dilapidated and was finally deconsecrated and sold in 1972, for use as a private dwelling. The older Saint George's was reopened in the same year, reroofed in 1973 and reglazed in 1974, once more to assume its role as the place of worship for the village. St George's stands on the site of the Saxon church mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. It is mostly Early English Gothic, with a Norman south doorway to nave and chancel arch and a Norman font." The CRSBI entry for this church (2008) dates the original fabric of the church to ca. 1130-1150 but does not mention the font. The National Archives of Gt. Britain web site, Berkshire Record Office, Miscellaneous Unofficial Collections (Catalogue 15) [www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=005-dex13011400&cid=-1#-1] [accessed 10 November 2011] lists an entry for a "Church font D/EX 1303/7/83/49-50 1976" from Hatford, Berkshire.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.651166, -1.513862
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 39′ 4.2″ N, 1° 30′ 49.9″ W
UTM: 30U 602813 5723287

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: , type unknown
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-11-10 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2011-11-10 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Keyser, Charles E., "Notes on the churches of Stanford-in-the-Vale, Hatford and Shellingford, and the chapels of Goosy and Balking", 20, No.1-4 (1914-1915), Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archaeological Journal, 1914-1915, pp. 1-9; 33-37; 65-73; 97-102; r["References"]