Halford nr. Stratford-upon-Avon
Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2015
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Results: 9 records
B01: design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: at the top of each of the side panels
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wiles [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 17 March 2006)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross, Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/warwickshire/churches/halford.htm] [accessed 7 January 2015]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wiles [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 17 March 2006)
view of church exterior - north portal - detail
Scene Description: detail of the capital on the west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross, Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/warwickshire/churches/halford.htm] [accessed 7 January 2015]
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view of church exterior - north portal - detail
Scene Description: capital on the west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross, Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/warwickshire/churches/halford.htm] [accessed 7 January 2015]
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view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross, Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/warwickshire/churches/halford.htm] [accessed 7 January 2015]
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view of church exterior - north portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Norman north doorway with carved tympanum and capitals."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross, Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/warwickshire/churches/halford.htm] [accessed 7 January 2015]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "The Fosse Way, the Roman road which runs from Exeter to Lincoln passes through the village of Halford at a crossing point of the River Stour so it is possible Christianity first came to the area with the Romans. The church dates back to the 12th century of which the north doorway and the chancel arch still remain."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Rogerson, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2012 by Richard Rogerson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2951774] [accessed 7 January 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font cover - finial
Scene Description: of the 16thC (?) font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross, Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/warwickshire/churches/halford.htm] [accessed 7 January 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11587HAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary [aka Our Blessed Lady's]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner of the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Queen Street, Halford, Warwickshire CV36 5BT, UK
Site Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A429, 12-13 km SSE of Stratford-upon-Avon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Kington
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original Norman church here)
Font Notes:
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We found no entry for Halford in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County Histoy (Warwick, vol. 5, 1919) notes: "The early history of the church is rather obscure [...] but the nave dates from about 1150, as shown by the chancel arch and two doorways. [...] The font, probably 14th-century, is octagonal; the bowl is deep with a splayed lower edge, and has in each face a shallow trefoiled ogee-headed panel with foiled spandrels. The stem has a top roll-mould and the base is chamfered. It has a 16th-century tall oak pyramidal cover with crocketed ribs at the angles and a central finial carved with five mitred heads." A font here is noted and illustrated in the Parish website [www.halfordparishcouncil.co.uk/church.aspx] [accessed 8 April 2010]: "14th Century Font with a 16th Century wooden cover". Baptismal font consisting of a polygonal basin with vertical sides decorated with a simple tracery head on each side [perhaps filled earlier with a painted scene or figure?]; chamfered underbowl; plain polygonal stem. The wooden cover is pyramidal, with crocketed arrises; appears Victorian. [NB: the original fabric of the church goes back to the Norman period but we have no information on the earlier font of this church].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to David Ross, of www.britainexpress.com, for their photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 594266 5773973
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.10826, -1.62352
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 6′ 29.74″ N, 1° 37′ 24.67″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 16th-century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.