Baldock / Baldac / Baldoke / Baudac
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Scene Description: the tell-tale cord of the bell gives away the position of the font beneath the tower
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06846BAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the W tower
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: 5 Church Street, Baldock SG7 5AF
Site Location: Hertfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A1(M), just E of Letchworth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Broadwater
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original mid-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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No entry for Baldock found in the Domesday survey. Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) notes "a very curious font" in this church. The font is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Transitional period [i.e., 1150-1200]. Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertforshire (1911): "Font: octagonal bowl with beaded edges, and circular stem flanked by octagonal shafts with moulded bases, 13th-century." The Victoria County History (Hertfordshire, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The advowson of the church of St. Mary at Baldock belonged to the Knights Templars, who built the church, and it continued in their possession until their suppression in 1309 […] The east end of the chancel is of the 13th century, but the remainder of the chancel, the north chapel, the nave, north and south aisles, west tower, and probably the lower part of the south porch were built about 1330. […] The font is of the 13th century, and has an octagonal bowl with beaded edges and a circular stem flanked by octagonal shafts with moulded bases." Tompkins (1922) writes: "the octagonal font is of great antiquity (probably not less than 700 years)." In Pevsner & Cherry (1977): "Font: Octagonal, on five shafts; C13." [NB: it is not clear what Lewis' Dictionary meant by "curious", this being a plain and common type of font]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 692947 5763622
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.9897, -0.1898
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 59′ 22.92″ N, 0° 11′ 23.28″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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. 45
- 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, [unknown]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Hertfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977, p. 82
- Tompkins, Herbert Winckworth, Hertfordshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1922, [www.guttenberg.org/files/18252/18252-8.txt]