South Mimms / Mimmine / South Mymms

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/368014] [accessed 19 September 2016]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital image of an illustration, in the St. Giles and St. Margaret's Parish page [http://stgiles-stmargarets.co.uk/baptisms] [accessed 19 September 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/368004] [accessed 19 September 2016]

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design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 4

Scene Description: on the outer colonnettes; the centre shaft appears to have some decorative elements on it

Image Source: digital photograph in the St. Giles and St. Margaret's Parish page [http://stgiles-stmargarets.co.uk/baptisms] [accessed 19 September 2016]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06983MIM

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] -- 14th century [stem only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Giles

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]

Church Address: Blanche Lane, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire EN6 3PD

Site Location: Hertfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located just W of Potters Bar, at the M25-A1 junction [NB: spelling varies but chiefly used as 'North Mymms' and 'South Mimms', the latter formerly in Middlesex]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans

Historical Region: Hundred of Edmonton -- formerly Middlesex

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the ca. 1140 church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

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]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 691240 5730930

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.696696, -0.232703

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 41′ 48.11″ N, 0° 13′ 57.73″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: five?

Font Shape: square, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1938 / modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: rim-canopy [cf. FontNotes]

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. 208
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Hertfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977, p. 339
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Middlesex, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1951, p. 142