Standon nr. Bishops Stortford / Standone / Staunden / Staundon / Stondon
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view of font and cover
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view of font
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - palmette - parallel - 2
Scene Description: around the basin sides
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view of church exterior - east view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Standon and St Mary's church. St Mary's is the only church in Hertfordshire with a detached tower. The chancel is C13. The tower is C15. The church was restored in 1864."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bikeboy, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2015 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4493271] [accessed 26 October 2016]
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view of church exterior in context - northeast view
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - columns with bases - 8
Scene Description: open arches, leaving the inside hollow except for the central shaft; some are damaged and their bases eroded; one is missing a column and the central stem now includes a partial replacement
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2007
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 May 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/361603] [accessed 26 October 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05614STA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [partly restored], Early English [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: High Street, Standon, Hertfordshire SG11 1LA
Site Location: Hertfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A120 (dir. Bishop's Stortford), just E of the A10, near Puckeridge, W of Bishops Stortford, 45 km S of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Braughing [aka Brauging]
Additional Comments: restored font (part of the stem of the present font is a modern replacement) -- disappeared font (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Standon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3922/standon/] [accessed 26 October 2016]; it mentions a priest but not a church in it, though probably was one there. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Early English period here. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a freestone baptismal font of the 13th century; the basin is octagonal and ornamented with a pair of parallel vines, described in Bond as "continuous tendrils of foliage", which he sees as traces "of the favourite interlacings of Romanesque". The base is also octagonal with vertical sides continuing those of the basin, but hollowed all around to leave an open arcade and the view of the central shaft. Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911): "Font: bowl, with bands of horizontal foliage, 13th-century, stem modern, but bases of shafts apparently orginal." The Victoria County History (Hertford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The church of Standon was granted by Gilbert de Clare to the Knights Hospitallers probably at the beginning of the 12th century [...]. Before 1280 the church was served by a vicar [...] The earliest part of the existing church is the chancel, which dates from about 1230–40. [...] The font has an octagonal basin, round which are carved in relief two rows of continuous foliage, probably of early 13th-century work; the stem is modern, but the original bases of detached shafts remain."
In Pevsner & Cherry (1977): "Font. A very interesting early C13 design; octagonal, with two horizontal wavy bands of stylized leaves running around the bowl."
In Pevsner & Cherry (1977): "Font. A very interesting early C13 design; octagonal, with two horizontal wavy bands of stylized leaves running around the bowl."
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 295379 5752029
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.88143, 0.02691
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 52′ 53.15″ N, 0° 1′ 36.88″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, freestone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 209, 217 and ill. on p. 218
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 202
- 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. 207
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Hertfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977, p. 340