Monken Hadley
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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a square - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 August 2009 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1494594] [accessed 17 June 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philafrenzy, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2015 by Philafrenzy [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary,_Monken_Hadley_09.JPG] [accessed 17 June 2019]
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philafrenzy, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2015 by Philafrenzy [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary,_Monken_Hadley_15.JPG] [accessed 17 June 2019]
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view of font and cover in context - southwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2009 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1494594] [accessed 17 June 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 August 2009 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1494594] [accessed 17 June 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06986MON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, W side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin [dedicated earlier to St. Mary the Virgin and St.James?]
Church Address: Hadley Green Rd, Monkey Hadley, Barnet EN5 5PZ, UK -- Tel.: +44 20 8449 9441
Site Location: Greater London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just N of Barnet, at the A1081-A1000 junction, in the London Borough of Barnet, 18 km NNW of Charing Cross
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of London
Historical Region: formerly Hertfordshire/ Middlesex
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the church here documented ca. 1175)
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for Monken Hadley in the Domesday survey. The entry for Hadley St. Mary's in Lysons (1795) reads in part: "The font is of Gothic architecture, ornamented with quatrefoils". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911): "Font: octagonal, with quatrefoil panels, 15th-century." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Hertsfordshire, 1912) notes: "The plain late-15th-century font has a modern cover." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Middlesex, vol. 5, 1976) notes: "When the bishop of London confirmed Walden in its ecclesiastical possessions c. 1175 Hadley was listed among the parochial churches. [...] The church of ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, said in 1504 to be dedicated to St. Mary and St. James, [...] was rebuilt c. 1494, [...] presumably on the site of an older building whose nave may be preserved in the later plan [...] The plain late-15th-century font has a modern cover".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 694072 5727130
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.6616, -0.1939
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 39′ 41.76″ N, 0° 11′ 38.04″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: yes; pulley
Notes: tall, withthree volumes of openwork; modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- 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
- 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. 151
- Lysons, Daniel, The Environs of London, being an historical account of the towns, villages, and hamlets, within twelve miles of that capital, London: printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1795-1796, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=45420] [accessed 23 March 2007]