Sawbridgeworth / Sabresford / Sabrettesworth / Sabridgeworth / Sabrisceworth / Sabrisworth / Sabrithtesworth / Sabrixteworda / Sabrixteworde / Sabrytesworth / Sebristeworda

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

Scene Description: some of these have other motifs inserted at the lower end

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symbol - shield - blank shield - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - 4?

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06852SAW
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Great [aka Great St. Mary's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 7 Church Street, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire CM21 9AB
Country Name: England
Location: Hertfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located on the A1184, 8 km N of Harlow
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Braughing [aka Brauging]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1400?
Century and Period: 14th century [restored], Decorated [altered]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
There is an entry for Sawbridgeworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4814/sawbridgeworth/] [accessed 26 October 2016]; it mentions two priests and church lands but not a church in it, though there must have been one there. The Antiquary (November 30, 1872, p. 292) notes the reopening of this chuch after restoration; "among other improvements, the font, which is supposed to date from the time of Edward III [i.e., 1327-1377], and was a heap of fragments, has been restored." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911): "Font: octagonal, with quatrefoil panels, c. 1400, repaired." The Victoria County History (hertford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "A priest is mentioned [actually, two are] among Geoffrey de Mandeville's tenants in 1086, [...] showing that the church was appurtenant to the manor. [...] It is probable that the main part of the chancel, nave and lower stage of the tower were built in the 13th century; the north and south aisles and the south chapel were added early in the 14th century; the clearstory was raised and the nave re-roofed in the 15th century, and probably about the same period the south porch was erected and the upper part of the tower built. In 1870 the whole church was repaired [...] The octagonal font dates from about 1400, and has been repaired; on each side of the basin is a quatrefoil within a square panel; on the stem are traceried panels." In Pevsner & Cherry (1977): "Font. c.1400. Octagonal, with panelled stem and shields in quatrefoil panels on the bowl."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.81265, 0.15309
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 48′ 45.54″ N, 0° 9′ 11.12″ E
UTM: 31U 303762 5744034

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: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-10-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Hertfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977