South Mimms / Mimmine / South Mymms

No separate entry for South Mimms found in the Domesday survey. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Early English period here. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL2223101196] (1949) notes: "C13/C14 font:plain square bowl, octagonal stem with traceried panels on 4 sides, 4 ringed shafts also support bowl. Gilt font cover by N. Comper 1938." Noted in Pevsner (1951) and in Pevsner & Cherry (1977): "Font. Four short C13 shafts support an absolutely plain, big, square bowl." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Middlesex, vol. 5, 1976) states: "A church at South Mimms was first mentioned c. 1140 [...] The church continued to serve the whole of South Mimms until 1836 [...] The chancel, or at least its western part, is of the 13th-century [...] The square bowl-font dates from the 13th-century and has 14th-century panelling on the pier. Its cover, designed by Sir Ninian Comper in 1938, is supported on four gilt pillars". The basin is plain but the columns of the base have capitals and bases. [NB: other fonts are reported in the VCH at South Mimms' other churches, but they fall outside the date scope of this Index]