Monken Hadley
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Results: 5 records
design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a square - 8
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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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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]
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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]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06986MON
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [dedicated earlier to St. Mary the Virgin and St.James?]
Church Location: Hadley Green Rd, Monkey Hadley, Barnet EN5 5PZ, UK -- Tel.: +44 20 8449 9441
Country Name: England
Location: Greater London, South East
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, W side
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.6616,
-0.1939
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 39′ 41.76″ N,
0° 11′ 38.04″ W
UTM: 30U 694072 5727130
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-. Accessed: 2006-07-10 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-06-17 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
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
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
