Greenford / Great Greenford / Greenford Magna / Greneforde

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inscription

Scene Description: the inscription on the upper rim is not available to us; the one on the basin side ia a quote from John 7:37; the one on the pedestal base records the donor and the date

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 December 2001 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1101711] [accessed 6 June 2019]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Greenford: Church of the Holy Cross [...] This is the Old Church, parts of the fabric of which, being the nave, the porch and the timbers which support the tower at the west end, date from the 15th century, but these may well represent the rebuilding of an earlier structure rather than a completely new building. A 14th century piscina discovered in the 1930s in the wall of the chancel tends to support this interpretation."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nigel Cox, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2013 by Nigel Cox [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3611444] [accessed 6 June 2019]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the old church

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Addison, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2013 by Martin Addison [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3700092] [accessed 6 June 2019]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of the Holy Cross (New Church) [...] commenced in 1939 and was completed, despite interruption during the war, by 1941. Its tithe barn style was designed by Sir Albert Richardson."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nigel Cox, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2013 by Nigel Cox [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3611479] [accessed 6 June 2019]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the 17thC font is visible here in the left [southwest] corner

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view of font

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 December 2001 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1101711] [accessed 6 June 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05288GRE
Church/Chapel: Church of the Holy Cross [old church]
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross
Church Location: Ferrymead Gardens, Greenford UB6 9NJ, UK -- Tel.: +44 20 3603 0856
Country Name: England
Location: Greater London, South East
Directions to Site: Located just S of Northolt, E of Ealing (on a parallel yellow road S of the A40)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of London
Historical Region: Hundred of Elthorne -- formerly Middlesex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of ther centre aisle
Date: 1638
Century and Period: 17th century(mid), Post-Reformation / Carline
There are four entries for Greenford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ1482/greenford/] [accessed 6 June 2019], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) write of a baptismal font inscribed "Ex dono dominae Franciscae Coston, viduae, nuper defunctae, 1638". Described in Bond (1908: 265) as a baptismal font dated to 1638 in the reign of Charles I. In Pevsner (1951): "Font. Small bowl on four-sided baluster, 1638. The cover may be of the same date, though its four volutes are still crocketed." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Middlesex, vol. 3, 1962) notes: "There was no church or priest mentioned in Domesday Book in 1086, but in 1157 a bull of Adrian IV which confirmed royal grants of churches to Westminster Abbey included the chapel of Greenford [...] The The present church was probably built or rebuilt in the late 15th or early 16th century [...] There was an extensive restoration in 1871 when the chancel arch was enlarged and rebuilt and the level of the chancel raised to that of the nave. In 1882 the chancel was refaced and in 1913 the bell turret was rebuilt. [...] The church was closed in 1951, and was in danger of being demolished. However, another extensive restoration resulted in its being reconsecrated and opened in 1956. [...] The font, which consists of a small circular bowl supported on a pedestal, was given by Frances Coston in 1638." The VCH entry (ibid.) further adds: "In 1939-40 the new church of the HOLY CROSS was built, a few yards west of the old church."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.535693, -0.350274
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 32′ 8.5″ N, 0° 21′ 0.98″ W
UTM: 30U 683766 5712727

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: quote from John 7:37 on the basin and name of the donor on the base; unable to read the inscription on the upper rim
Inscription Location: we are unable to transcribe the text on the upper rim of the basin
Inscription Text: 1) "[...] Si quis sitit ueniat ad me / Baptisterium" 2)"Ex dono dominae Franciscae Coston, viduae, nuper defunctae, 1638
Inscription Source: Cox & Harvey (1907: 181)

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-06-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Middlesex, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1951