Datchworth / Daceuuorde / Daccheworthe / Dachesworth / Daeccewyrthe / Decawrthe / Tacheworth / Tachwird / Thatcheworth

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/377630] [accessed 12 October 2016]

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design element - patterns - crenellated

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/377630] [accessed 12 October 2016]

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design element - architectural - arch or window - 24

Scene Description: some trefoiled [seen here on the left panel], others cinquefoiled [seen here on the right panel]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/377630] [accessed 12 October 2016]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/377630] [accessed 12 October 2016]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2016 by Jthomas [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4932225] [accessed 12 October 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: showing the font and cover in the foreground, right [south] side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/377631] [accessed 12 October 2016]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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design element - patterns - crenellated

Scene Description: a row of at the top of the stem, between the crenellation and the arches on the octagonal stem

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 16

Scene Description: in pairs on the sides of the octagonal stem

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: an awkward combination with the stops of the square volume below

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design element - motifs - fret or stop - 4

Scene Description: an awkward combination with the mouldings on the upper octagonal volume above

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/377630] [accessed 12 October 2016]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06850DAT

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [aka All Hallows']

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the S entrance

Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints

Church Address: 68 Bury Lane, Datchworth, Hertfordshire SG3 6RG

Site Location: Hertfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located just SE of Knebworth, 7 km SE of Stevenage

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans

Historical Region: Hundred of Broadwater

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

There are four entries for Datchworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL2619/datchworth/] [accessed 12 October 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Early English period here [NB: did C&H see another font here?]. Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Hertforshire, 1911): "Font: octagonal, early 15th-century." The Victoria County History (Hertfordshire, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The advowson of the church of All Saints (or All Hallows) at Datchworth belonged to the lords of that manor at an early date. In 1192 the Abbot of Westminster made an agreement with Hugh de Bocland, then lord of the manor, that he should pay 20s. to the abbot on each institution. […] The nave is probably of the 12th century. […] The font, standing at the south entrance, has an octagonal bowl with trefoiled panelled sides and an embattled edge, on a moulded octagonal stem and base." In Pevsner & Cherry (1977): "Font. Good C15 work with panelled stem and panelled octagonal bowl."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 695563 5749046

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.857888, -0.160028

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 51′ 28.4″ N, 0° 9′ 36.1″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: painted and gilded octagonal platform with eight vertical scrolls and urn-like finial

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. 85
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Hertfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977, p. 136