Radwelll / Radeuuelle / Radewelle

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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - 8?

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symbol - shield - blank - 8?

Scene Description: found just below the underbowl, in the interstices or spandrels of the upper base

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2474506] [accessed 20 October 2016]

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view of font and cover

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]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05976RAD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Radwell Lane, Radwell, Hertfordshire SG7 5ES
Country Name: England
Location: Hertfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A1(M1), just N of Baldcock
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Odsey
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.006072, -0.206554
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 0′ 21.86″ N, 0° 12′ 23.59″ W
UTM: 30U 691727 5765398

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-. Accessed: 2016-10-21 00:00:00. 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
Tompkins, Herbert Winckworth, Hertfordshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1922
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928