Hornsey / Harenhg / Haringey
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: The medieval church was demolished in 1832 and a new church built; this church was demolished in 1927 and a new church built; that church was demolished in 1969 and the parishioners moved to the National Hall on High St; in 1982 they joined St George’s Church in Cranley Gardens, N8, and the two congregations became one as St Mary with St George, Hornsey’s parish church with an incumbent who is the Rector of Hornsey [source: Hornsey Historical Society [https://hornseyhistorical.org.uk/brief-history-st-marys-church-tower/] [accessed 20 June 2019]]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06985HOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George [originally from Old St. Mary church]
Church Location: Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hilll, Hornsey, London N10 3AH, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Greater London, South East
Directions to Site: Located N of Islington, between Archway Rd. and Aylmer Rd. [St. George's is on Priory Rd., Cranley Gardens], 10 km N of Charing Cross
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of London
Historical Region: Hundred of Ossulstone -- formerly Middlesex
Font Location in Church: Inside St. George's
Century and Period: 16th century, Late Perpendicular
No individual entry found for Hornsey in the Domesday survey. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period here. In his entry for the church of St. George, Hornsey, Pevsner (1951) notes: "In it is the octagonal C16 font from the old Hornsey Church" [i.e., the medieval church of St. Mary of which only part of the tower remains as part of the new church started in 1888]. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Middlesex, vol. 6, 1980) notes: "The living of Hornsey was assessed in 1291 [...] and had a priest in 1302, when it was a rectory [...] The existing church of ST. MARY, a converted hall, is at least the fourth building of that name to serve the parish; only the tower survives from previous churches [...] No part appears to have been older than the 13th century [...] The 16th-century font from St. Mary's was moved from the old to the new St. George's church" [the VCH entry is footnoted: "M.R.O., D.R.O. 20/B4/6; Sidey, Short Hist. Hornsey Old Ch. 7"]
COORDINATES
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2007-03-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Middlesex, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1951
