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view of font
Scene Description: unfortunately the lovely floral arrangement covers the, as it is, almost invisible foliage pattern on the basin sides
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 September 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5131700] [accessed 17 October 2016]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Clutterbuck (1815-1827)
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: it just faintly visible now, covered with thick whitewash
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 September 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5131647] [accessed 17 October 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the font being decorated at the far [west] end of the centre aisle](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1161017008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font being decorated at the far [west] end of the centre aisle
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the shaft and four colonnettes
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: below the columns of the base
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06853STE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, by the tower
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Weston Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire SG1 4DA
Site Location: Hertfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A602 and the A1(M), 40-45 km N of London
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Broadwater
Additional Comments: altered font / painted font (the present one: base whitewashed) -- disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Stevenage [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL2426/stevenage/] [accessed 17 October 2016] but it mentions neither cleric not church in it. Gough (1792) reports an early baptismal font, square on four supports here. Illustrated in Clutterbuck (1815-1827). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The Victoria County History (Hertfordshire, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The earliest portion of the existing church is the tower, which was built in the first half of the 12th century, and appears to have formed the tower and west porch combined of the original church, which probably consisted of a chancel, nave and tower. […] The font is of early 13th-century date, and has a square bowl, carved with foliage, and standing on a circular stem with small round detached angle-shafts having moulded bases and capitals." Described in much the same terms in the inventory of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911). In Pevsner & Cherry (1977): "Font. Plain C13, with later ogee-shaped crocketed cover."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 692658 5755908
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.920525, -0.198332
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 55′ 13.89″ N, 0° 11′ 53.99″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: 16th-17th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Clutterbuck, Robert, The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford : compiled from the best printed authorities and original records [...], London: Printed by and for Nichols, Son, and Bentley [...], 1815-1827, vol. 3: plate
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 202
- Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 190
- 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. 213
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Hertfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977, p. 345
- Tompkins, Herbert Winckworth, Hertfordshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1922, [www.guttenberg.org/files/18252/18252-8.txt]