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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2012 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2956681] [accessed 20 October 2016]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2005 by Colin Hinson
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (10 July 2005)
view of basin - interior
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2005 by Colin Hinson
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (10 July 2005)
view of church exterior - north view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2012 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2956656] [accessed 20 October 2016]
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2012 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2956798] [accessed 20 October 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the top of the modern font is visible at the far [west] end. left [south] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1161021014_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the top of the modern font is visible at the far [west] end. left [south] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2012 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2956723] [accessed 20 October 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![the top of the modern font is visible in the foreground, right [south] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1161021013_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the top of the modern font is visible in the foreground, right [south] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2012 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2956791] [accessed 20 October 2016]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2005 by Colin Hinson
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (10 July 2005)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10952HIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: [altered?]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: The modern font is inside the church, centre of the nave, W end, opposite the S door -- the old font was reported in the Glebe Farm ca. 1912
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Ashwell Road, Hinxworth, Hertfordshire SG7 5H
Site Location: Hertfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A1, about 7 km NNE of Lechtworth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Odsey
Additional Comments: disused font? (the one reported in the Glebe Farm ca. 1912)
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Hinxworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL2340/hinxworth/] [accessed 20 October 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Hertford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The advowson of the church was held in the 13th century by the Cantlowes. William de Cantlowe presented in 1218 and 1236 [...] The general walling of nave and west tower, the north and south doorways and the windows adjoining them on the west, belong to the middle of the 14th century [...] The font is modern, but the remains of the old one, consisting of a circular basin with a plain square top, lie in the garden of the Glebe Farm. It appears to be of the late 12th century." [NB: we have not been able to ascertain whether the baptismal font at Hinxworth St. Nicholas' is a composite one made up of a modern base and a re-cut old basin, or simply totally modern, which is more likely].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 692194 5770046
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.04765, -0.19716
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 2′ 51.54″ N, 0° 11′ 49.78″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: plain, octagonal and flat, with a cross finial/handle
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.