Radwelll / Radeuuelle / Radewelle
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symbol - shield - blank - 8?
Scene Description: found just below the underbowl, in the interstices or spandrels of the upper base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2474506] [accessed 20 October 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - 8?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2474506] [accessed 20 October 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05976RAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Radwell Lane, Radwell, Hertfordshire SG7 5ES
Site Location: Hertfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A1(M1), just N of Baldcock
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Odsey
Additional Comments: altered font? re-carved font? (was this the font of the ca.1300 church, later re-carved?)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Radwell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL2335/radwell/] [accessed 20 October 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. An 1831 sepia drawing of this font by "J.B." [John Buckler] is reported in the Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies [ref.: D/Z119/10/552C] [digital image not yet available]. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911) reports: "Font: of rough workmanship, ornamented with shields, possibly 15th-century." The Victoria County History (Hertford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The church of All Saints, Radwell, has always been in the gift of the lord of the manor, [...] the earliest recorded presentation occurring in 1304. [...] The font is of stone, roughly worked ; on the sides are shields of a late type. It is probably of 15th-century date, although the form of the font itself belongs to an earlier period." In Tompkins (1922): "The font is fourteenth century." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. The font is badly damaged, cracked right through around the lower basin sides. The wooden cover consists of a flat octagonal platorm with four vertical scroll ribs and a knob finial; appears modern
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 691727 5765398
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.006072, -0.206554
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 0′ 21.86″ N, 0° 12′ 23.59″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- 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. 166
- Tompkins, Herbert Winckworth, Hertfordshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1922, [www.guttenberg.org/files/18252/18252-8.txt]
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 31