Finchley / Fynceslea / St-Mary-at-Finchley

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design element - architectural - arch or window - pointed - 16

Scene Description: a pair on each of the panels of the octagonal basin

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 31 October 2015 by Philafrenzy [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary_Finchley_31_October_2015_07.JPG] [accessed 20 June 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - south view

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of church interior - looking west

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: The web site of the St-Mary-at-Finchley Parish Church [www.stmaryatfinchley.org.uk] notes: "The Font is an octagonal bowl of the 12th century. It was dug up in the rectory garden, having possibly been buried during the Commonwealth. It was restored in 1891 and placed in its present position in 1953."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 January 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2260631] [accessed 20 June 2019]

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10482FIN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [at least by 1356]

Church Location: 26 Hendon Ln, Finchley, London N3 1TR, UK -- Tel.: +44 20 8248 3818

Country Name: England

Location: Greater London, South East

Directions to Site: Located off the A598, halfway between Camden Town (SE) and Barnet (NW), NW of central London

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of London

Historical Region: Hundred of Ossulstone -- formerly Middlesex

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Transitional? / Early Gothic?

Church Notes: "The Church of Our Ladye Saint Marye at Fynceslea"

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No individual entry found for Finchley in the Domesday survey. Pevsner (1951) writes: "Font. C13 on modern shaft; plain octagonal bowl with two pointed blank panels to each face (a C13 development of the Harlington type)." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Middlesex, vol. 6, 1980) notes: "A church at Finchley was first recorded in 1274, although some of its fabric was probably older. [...] Fragments of carved 12th-century stonework are set into the west wall of the nave and the foundations of a smaller building are said to have been found beneath the floor in 1872. [...] The Purbeck marble bowl of an early-13thcentury font, found in the rectory stables, was installed in 1911"; the VCH footnotes the reference to the font to the 'Newsletter' of the Finchley Society of June 1972: "The Purbeck marble bowl of an early-13th century font, found in the rectory stables, was installed in 1911". The web site of the St-Mary-at-Finchley Parish Church [www.stmaryatfinchley.org.uk] notes: "The Font is an octagonal bowl of the 12th century. It was dug up in the rectory garden, having possibly been buried during the Commonwealth. It was restored in 1891 and placed in its present position in 1953."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.5997, -0.197715

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 35′ 58.92″ N, 0° 11′ 51.77″ W

UTM: 30U 694072 5720238

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone [marble (purbeck)]

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood and metal,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat with metal ribs atop; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2005-01-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Middlesex, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1951