Henham / Henham-on-the-Hill

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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8

Scene Description: one on each side, with a charged shield inscribed

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

Scene Description: "a scratched cross" [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Nina & Ray, Henham Parish Bygones [http://www.henhamhistory.org/] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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B03: symbol - shield - coat of arms - Ufford

Scene Description: "an engrailed cross" [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Nina & Ray, Henham Parish Bygones [http://www.henhamhistory.org/] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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B04: symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Nina & Ray, Henham Parish Bygones [http://www.henhamhistory.org/] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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B05: symbol - shield - coat of arms - Fitzwalter impaling Fitzwarren

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Nina & Ray, Henham Parish Bygones [http://www.henhamhistory.org/] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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B06: symbol - shield - coat of arms - Bourchier

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Nina & Ray, Henham Parish Bygones [http://www.henhamhistory.org/] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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B07: symbol - shield - coat of arms - Durward

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Nina & Ray, Henham Parish Bygones [http://www.henhamhistory.org/] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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B08: symbol - shield - coat of arms - Montechensi

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Nina & Ray, Henham Parish Bygones [http://www.henhamhistory.org/] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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B09: symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified

Scene Description: "three cheverons ermine" [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Nina & Ray, Henham Parish Bygones [http://www.henhamhistory.org/] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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BS01: design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: in each of the spandrels made by the quatrefoils of the basin sides

Image Source: digital photograph by Nina & Ray, Henham Parish Bygones [http://www.henhamhistory.org/] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph by Nina & Ray, Henham Parish Bygones [http://www.henhamhistory.org/] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Nina & Ray, Henham Parish Bygones [http://www.henhamhistory.org/] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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LB02: design element - motifs - panel - trefoiled

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Nina & Ray, Henham Parish Bygones [http://www.henhamhistory.org/] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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view of font

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view of font and cover

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view of basin - side

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view of basin - side

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view of church exterior - porch

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view of church exterior - portal

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view of church exterior - porch - detail

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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 - 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

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view of church exterior - detail

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view of church exterior - east side - detail

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view of church exterior - east side

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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 - nave - looking west

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font in context

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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 - painting

Scene Description: the painting above the window, to the right; detail in the following image

Image Source: digital photograph by Nina & Ray, Henham Parish Bygones [http://www.henhamhistory.org/] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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view of church interior - painting

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view of church interior - painting

Scene Description: the painting on the upper left; detail in the following image

Image Source: digital photograph by Nina & Ray, Henham Parish Bygones [http://www.henhamhistory.org/] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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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 church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph by Nina & Ray, Henham Parish Bygones [http://www.henhamhistory.org/] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph by Nina & Ray, Henham Parish Bygones [http://www.henhamhistory.org/] [accessed 9 December 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 11 December 2007)

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph by Nina & Ray, Henham Parish Bygones [http://www.henhamhistory.org/] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: notice the damaged area

Image Source: digital photograph by Nina & Ray, Henham Parish Bygones [http://www.henhamhistory.org/] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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information

Scene Description: list of St. Mary's rectors starting in 1150

Image Source: digital photograph by Nina & Ray, Henham Parish Bygones [http://www.henhamhistory.org/] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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view of font cover

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view of base - detail

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view of church - plan

Scene Description: plan drafted in 1911

Image Source: digital photograph by Nina & Ray, Henham Parish Bygones [http://www.henhamhistory.org/] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11780HEN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Henham

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17539905

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin

Church Address: Church St, Henham, Bishop's Stortford CM22 6AL, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1279 814285

Site Location: Essex, East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located about 10 km NE of Bishop's Stortford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford

Additional Comments: req'd photos and permission from local site 9 Dec 2007 -- received ***VERY IMPORTANT: Nina & Ray have asked that BSI DO NOT use their surname [cf. paper file for explanation]***

Font Notes: Click to view

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).

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Nina & Ray, of Henham Parish Bygones [www.henhamhistory.org/], for their photographs of this church and font.

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, p. 486
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Essex, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1916-1923, vol. 1: 163