Henham / Henham-on-the-Hill
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Results: 52 records
B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: one on each side, with a charged shield inscribed
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Image Source: digital photograph by Nina & Ray, Henham Parish Bygones [http://www.henhamhistory.org/] [accessed 9 December 2007]
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B02: symbol - shield - cross
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Scene Description: "a scratched cross" [cf. Font notes]
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B03: coat of arms - Ufford
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Scene Description: "an engrailed cross" [cf. Font notes]
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B04: symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion
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B05: coat of arms - Fitzwalter impaling Fitzwarren
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B06: coat of arms - Bourchier
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B07: coat of arms - Durward
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B08: coat of arms - Montechensi
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B09: coat of arms - unidentified
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Scene Description: "three cheverons ermine" [cf. Font notes]
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BS01: design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: in each of the spandrels made by the quatrefoils of the basin sides
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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
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LB02: design element - motifs - panel - trefoiled
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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information
Scene Description: list of St. Mary's rectors starting in 1150
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view of base - detail
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: notice the damaged area
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view of basin - side
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view of basin - side
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view of church - plan
Scene Description: plan drafted in 1911
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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - detail
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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - detail
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view of church exterior - detail
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view of church exterior - east side
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view of church exterior - east side - detail
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view of church exterior - porch
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view of church exterior - porch
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view of church exterior - porch - detail
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view of church exterior - porch - detail
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view of church exterior - porch - detail
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view of church exterior - porch - detail
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view of church exterior - portal
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - window
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view of church interior - detail
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view of church interior - detail
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view of church interior - detail
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view of church interior - detail
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view of church interior - detail
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of church interior - painting
Scene Description: the painting on the upper left; detail in the following image
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view of church interior - painting
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view of church interior - painting
Scene Description: the painting above the window, to the right; detail in the following image
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view of church interior - painting
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view of church interior - painting
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view of church interior - stairs
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view of church interior - window
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view of church interior - window
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view of font
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view of font and cover
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view of font cover
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view of font in context
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11780HEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located about 10 km NE of Bishop's Stortford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Nina & Ray, of Henham Parish Bygones [www.henhamhistory.org/], for their photographs of this church and font.
Font Notes:
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The Gentleman's Magazine (issue for December 1857: 643) notes: "Round the font are eight shields, with these arms: 1)Fitzwalter, impaling quarterly, -- 1,2 oblterated. 3. Quarterly per fess indented; 2)Bourchier; 3)-- Erm., on a chevron 3 crescents; 4) Montechensi; 5)-- 3 chevronels erm; 6) a cross engrailed; [7 not recorded]; 8)The instruments of the Passion". Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "Font: octagonal bowl, each side with quatrefoil panel and shield-- (a) a scratched cross; (b) an engrailed cross, for Ufford; (c) the emblems of the Passion; (d) a fesse between two cheverons, for Fitzwalter, impaling a quarter coat, the third quarter, quarterly palewise and fessewise indented for Fitzwarren; (e) a cross engrailed between four water bougets , one missing, for Bourchier; (f) ermine a cheveron with three crescents thereon, for Durward; (g) barry; (h) three cheverons ermine; stem with trefoiled panels and moulded base, 15th-century." In Bettley & Pevsner (2007).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Rim Thickness: 80-73.5 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 54.5 cm*
Basin Depth: 34.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements courtesy of Nina & Ray]
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. Images area]
REFERENCES
Bettley, James, Essex, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923