Heckfield / Effelle / Hecfeld / Hechingfeld / Hegfeld / Heggefeld / Heghefeld / Heifeld / Hekfeld / Highfield
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design element - patterns - tracery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/343914] [accessed 1 August 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/343913] [accessed 1 August 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brendan and Ruth McCartney, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2005 by Brendan and Ruth McCartney [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heckfield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3555.jpg] [accessed 1 August 2018]
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view of font and cover in context - west side
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, looking east towards the chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/343914] [accessed 1 August 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06752HEC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, by the N doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: 27 Church Lane, Heckfield, Hampshire RG27 0LG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1256 760169
Site Location: Hampshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B3349, 6 km WNW of Hartley-Wintney, 12-13 km ENN of Basinstoke
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Holdshot / Holdshott
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Heckfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU7260/heckfield/] [accessed 1 August 2018]; it reports a church in it. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a handsome font" here. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the 14th century, the Decorated period, made of Purbeck marble. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "There was a church in Heckfield at the time of the Domesday Survey [...] Alhough the [present] building is doubtless of some antiquity, it has been so completely modernized that very few of the old details are left to tell the history of the fabric. There seems to have been an aisleless nave and chancel here in the 13th century, or earlier. At the 'restoration' of 1876 (described in the churchwardens' account book, quoted below) a piscina was discovered in the north chapel, and pronounced by Mr. Butterfield, the architect of the rebuilding, to be of the 12th century [...] The Purbeck marble font is of the 15th century; it is octagonal in plan, and has traceried panelled sides to the bowl and stem." Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble [polygonal II type]; "there are traceried panels on the faces of both bowl and stem". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU7236960652] reports "a fine late C15 font" in it. The Parish web site [www.heckfield.hampshire.org.uk/Parish_Church/parish_church.htm] notes: "The church is entered by the main North Door, close to the Tower [...] Immediately inside the church is the Font, which is dated 1350 and is made of Purbeck marble."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 641814 5689518
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.33923, -0.964
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 20′ 21.23″ N, 0° 57′ 50.4″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
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 decorations; appears modern, probably Victorian
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 200, 201
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 79
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51021] [accessed 8 February 2007]