Northaw / Northag / Northaga / Northall / Northauge
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Thomas a Becket church, Northaw. Built in 1881 replacing a church built in 1809. Nothing remains of the earlier church which stood on this site except the C15 octagonal font in the churchyard by the south door to the nave. There are several C15 documentary references to the earlier church (mainly regarding bequests to the church) in the St Albans wills."
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/367964] [accessed 27 September 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/367970] [accessed 27 September 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11526NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Tomas the Martyr[aka St. Thomas of Canterbury]
Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket]
Church Location: 1 Vineyards Road, Northaw EN6 4NW
Country Name: England
Location: Hertfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located on the B156, just E of Potters Bar, N of London
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Cashio
Font Location in Church: Reported in the churchyard ca. 1911 [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Northaw in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Hertfordshire, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "Northaw was a chapelry of St. Peter's in St. Albans […] till the middle of the sixteenth century, […] and all tithes and oblations were held by the sacristan of the monastery of St. Albans in the fourteenth century […] The church of ST. THOMAS THE MARTYR has been entirely rebuilt, and no vestige of the former building remains except the fifteenth-century octagonal font, which is set in the churchyard near the south door of the nave. It has on its bowl floral patterns alternating with shields bearing a plain St. George's cross." The font is noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911): "in the churchyard is part of a 15th-century font". [NB: the modern, 19th-century Victorian font in use is noted in Gough (1792): "octagon, with shields of arms, &c.", and described in Tompkins (1922): "finely carved font of Ancaster stone, on marble pillars, presented by the children of the parish."]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.705141, -0.150457
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 42′ 18.51″ N, 0° 9′ 1.64″ W
UTM: 30U 696887 5732088
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-09-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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
Lucot, P., "L'ancienne cuve de la cathédrale de Châlons-sur-Marne", 1901-1902, Mémoires de la Société d'agriculture, commerce, sciences et arts du Département de la Marne, 1901-1902, pp. 65-71; p. 195
Tompkins, Herbert Winckworth, Hertfordshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1922