Harlington in London / Herdintone

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 24

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © BobSpeel, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken by Bod Speel [http://www.speel.me.uk/chlondon/chh/harlington/font.jpg] [accessed 7 June 2019]
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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: as bases of the four attached colonnettes and on the lower base itself
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © BobSpeel, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken by Bod Speel [http://www.speel.me.uk/chlondon/chh/harlington/font.jpg] [accessed 7 June 2019]
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view of church exterior - south portal

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rodolph, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2013 by Rodolph [R. de Salis] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_portal_%26_tympanum_of_the_church_of_Saints_Peter_%26_Paul,_Harlington.jpg] [accessed 7 June 2019]
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view of church exterior - south portal - west side - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rodolph, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2013 by Rodolph [R. de Salis] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detail_of_south_portal_of_SS_Peter_%26_Paul,_Harlington,_Middlesex,_2013.jpg] [accessed 7 June 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Harlington, just north of Heathrow Airport. The tower of the parish church of St Peter and St Paul dates from 1500 and the porch dates from the same time. The nave, however, is Norman and possesses probably the best Norman doorway in Greater London".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marathon, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2016 by Marathon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4795013] [accessed 7 June 2019]
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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the plinth is modern, as is the font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1686603] [accessed 7 June 2019]
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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the plinth is modern, as is the font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © BobSpeel, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken by Bod Speel [http://www.speel.me.uk/chlondon/chh/harlington/font.jpg] [accessed 7 June 2019]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received from the author (e-mail of 8 June 2019)

INFORMATION

FontID: 06982HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: St Peter's Way, off High St, Harlington, Hayes UB3 5DN, UK -- Tel.: +44 20 8759 9569
Country Name: England
Location: Greater London, South East
Directions to Site: Located right S of the M4, on a lane ["way"] off the Hight St, about half a mile N of the centre of the village centre, about 2 km S of Hayes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of London
Historical Region: Hundred of Elthorne -- formerly Middlesex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Bob Speel for his photograph of this font
Font Notes:
There is an entry for this Harlington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ0877/harlington/] [accessed 7 June 2019]; it reports a priest and {0.5 church lands" but not a church in it, though there must have been one there. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period here. Noted in Pevsner (1951): "Font. C12, square bowl with round-headed blank arcades." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Middlesex, vol. 3, 1962) notes: "Part of Harlington church dates from the 12th century, [...] and there was doubtless a church of some sort there by 1086, since Domesday Book mentions a priest at Harlington. [...] The church was probably founded by a lord of the manor, and also served the neighbouring manor of Dawley, which was under the overlordship of the lord of Harlington before the Conquest. [...] The nave is the oldest part of the church and dates from the 12th century [...] the south doorway remains as a very fine example of 12th-century work. [...] A baptistry was formed under the west tower in which the 12th-century font now stands. The font is of Purbeck marble and consists of a square bowl decorated with roughly carved arcading, a central stem with four angle shafts, and a square moulded base." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble; no details [source given: RCHM, 1937, pl. 9]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.4924, -0.434219
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 29′ 32.64″ N, 0° 26′ 3.19″ W
UTM: 30U 678114 5707706

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2007-03-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Middlesex, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1951