Hungerford / Hungirford / Hungreford
Image copyright © Brian Robert Marshall, 2014
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design element - architectural - arch or window - cinquefoiled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 February 2020 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 July 2020)
design element - motifs - foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 February 2020 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 July 2020)
symbol - floral - rose - Tudor rose - 32
Scene Description: tiny roses, like the larger ones in the centre of the panel, but these are jammed into the spandrels of the quatrefoils
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 February 2020 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 July 2020)
symbol - floral - rose - Tudor rose - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square - 8
Scene Description: large floral symbols that have other tiny ones in the spandrels of the quatrefoils
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 February 2020 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 July 2020)
view of basin and cover in context - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 February 2020 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 July 2020)
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3604880] [accessed 26 May 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3604303] [accessed 26 May 2015]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 February 2020 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 July 2020)
view of church exterior - west view
![Source caption: "West elevation, St Lawrence's Church, Parsonage Lane, Hungerford. Although medieval in appearance, the church dates back a mere 200 years. [...] It replaced a much earlier church which, after 700 years, had collapsed."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150620007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "West elevation, St Lawrence's Church, Parsonage Lane, Hungerford. Although medieval in appearance, the church dates back a mere 200 years. [...] It replaced a much earlier church which, after 700 years, had collapsed."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brian Robert Marshall, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 Octobert 2014 by Brian Robert Marshall [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4191740] [accessed 26 May 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover - southwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brian Robert Marshall, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 Octobert 2014 by Brian Robert Marshall [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4191911] [accessed 26 May 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover in context - west side
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3604869] [accessed 26 May 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 07089HUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parich Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: 4 Parsonage Lane, Hungerford, Berkshire, RG17 0JB, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Berkshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 15 km W of Newbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Kintbury Eagle
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: original church 12thC; re-built mid-14thC; church collapsed and re-built 19thC
Font Notes:
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Murray (1882) reports "a good Perp[endicular] font from the old edifice" in this church." The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) writes about a number of disputes related to a church at Hungerford in the mid-to-late 12th century, and notes: "in 1340–1 the Abbot of Bee Hellouin was rector of the church of Hungerford [...] The [present] church of St. Lawrence is an uninteresting building erected at the beginning of the 19th century [...] The font belongs to the former building and is of 15th-century date, octagonal in plan, with panelled bowl and shaft, the former with a quatrefoil within a circle on each side." [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 12th-century church at Hungerford -- the churches of Eddington St. Saviour's and Newton St. Mary's are both modern].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.416521, -1.521818
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 24′ 59.48″ N, 1° 31′ 18.55″ W
UTM: 30U 602789 5697182
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: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-11-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Murray, John [the firm], Handbook for travellers in Berks. Bucks and Oxfordshire, including a [...], London: John Murray, 1882