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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of the Holy Cross, Sarratt. The earliest parts of the church are late C12. The tower was built in C11 and raised in C16. The church was restored by Giles Gilbert Scott 1865-6."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bikeboy, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 March 2015 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4395138] [accessed 28 September 2016]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/348935] [accessed 28 September 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/348936] [accessed 28 September 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06800SAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Cross
Font Location in Church: In the churchyard ca. 1900 [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Cross
Church Address: SA40, Sarratt WD3 6HE
Site Location: Hertfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just off (W) the M25, NW of Watford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Additional Comments: damaged font / abandoned font: by 1911 only remains of it in the churchyard, but the original plinth is still in place -- price of a font: (the VCH cf. infra, fn100 notes: "In a will of 1460 there is a bequest to the fabric of the Holy Font in the church of Sarratt, 20d. Ibid. Stoneham, 98d.")
Font Notes:
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No separate entry for Sarratt found in the Domesday survey. Cox & Harvey (1907) report a baptismal font of the Norman period made of Purbeck marble in this church. The Victoria County History (Hertfordshire, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The plan altogether has an early look, but there is nothing in the architectural features to suggest a date earlier than the last decade of the twelfth century, to which time, in spite of much restoration, the main part of the fabric seems to belong. […] The font is in Sussex marble [...] and is copied from a former font, the remains of which lie in the churchyard. It is of a common late twelft-century type, with a shallow square bowl ornameted with blank arcades, and resting on a central and four angle shafts. The plinth is ancient and belonged to the old font." The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911) notes: "in the churchyard, remains of font, 12th-century". The font inside the church is 19thC.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 673403 5728845
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.68376, -0.491565
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 41′ 1.54″ N, 0° 29′ 29.63″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
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. 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. 202