Abbots Langley / Abbot's Langley / Abbots Langeleie / Langelai / Langleia / Lees Langlei

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle - in a quatrefoil

Scene Description: seen here in the centre

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5012090] [accessed 21 September 2016]

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull - in a quatrefoil

Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - in a quatrefoil

Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5012091] [accessed 21 September 2016]

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coat of arms - unidentified

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coat of arms - unidentified - in a quatrefoil

Scene Description: seen here in the right panel

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - 16 arches - Gothic arches

Scene Description: Two arches on each side of the base stem

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5012007] [accessed 21 September 2016]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the top of the font is visible in the left [south] aisle, towards the west

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view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5012025] [accessed 21 September 2016]

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view of church interior - painting

Scene Description: St. Lawrence, patron saint of this church

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view of font

Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)

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view of font - north side

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view of font - southeast side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03450ABB

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence the Martyr

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]

Church Location: High Street, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire WD5 0AA

Country Name: England

Location: Hertfordshire, East

Directions to Site: Located in the loop formed by the M25 and the M1 N of Watford, just E of Kings Langley, SE of Hemel Hempstead, N of Watford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans

Historical Region: Hundred of Danish [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Cashio

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: The basin of the font at St. Alban's No.2 (St. Stephen's Church)

Church Notes: "The Church is interesting from the late Norman work of the nave, and several good Decorated windows, particularly in a large aisle on the south side, which is now used for the chancel; there are a few brasses, one as late as 1604." (Paley, 1844, unpaged)

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for [Abbot's] Langley in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL0902/abbots-langley/] [accessed 21 September 2016]; it mentions a priest but not a church in it, though there must have been one there. Octagonal mounted font in the Decorated style, dated to the late 14th century by Paley (1844), who notes some details of its use: "Within these few years [ca. 1844?] it has been covered with a stone slab, in which is inserted a questionable looking basin of rather large dimensions, having a water-plug; the cover is of similar character". The Victoria County History (Hertfordshire, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The architectural history of the church cannot be taken back to an earlier date than the last quarter of the twelfth century. […] The font is of the fifteenth century with octagonal panelled bowl and stem. On the bowl are the evangelistic symbols in quatrefoils alternating with shields, which have been painted in modern times." Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertforshire (1911): "Font: with octagonal panelled bowl and stem, bearing traces of paint and gilding, 15th century." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1977): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with shields inside quatrefoils (in two panels coursely carved angels instead)." The eight sides of the basin have quatrefoil frames which have the symbols of the Evangelists alternating with blank shields. The underbowl is chamfered and the octagonal stem of the base has a blind arcade of Gothic arches, while the lower part of the base has two mouldings. The plinth is octagonal as well and there remains a staple on the upper rim of the basin from the old font cover. A recent photograph of this font by Barbara Chapman in 'A church for Leverstock Green: building Holy Trinity' can be found at http://bacchronicle.homestead.com/church.html [accessed 28 September 2006]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.706963, -0.416691

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 42′ 25.07″ N, 0° 25′ 0.09″ W

UTM: 30U 678487 5731606

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm* (before the floor was raised)

Notes on Measurements: * Paley (1844)

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. font notes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-09-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

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

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

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