Hatfield Broad Oak / Hatfield Broadoak

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 April 2015 by Acabashi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_St_Mary_Hatfield_Broad_Oak_Essex_England_-_from_the_northeast.jpg] [accessed 16 May 2018]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "A view from the south-east of the churchyard of the south porch, south aisle and tower of St Mary the Virgin's Church, Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex".

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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 font and cover

Scene Description: the restored / re-built font cover on the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2008 by PaulHP [[composite font cover: 15th and 18th century]] [accessed 8 July 2010]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: "The font, made in 1897, is an enlarged facsimile of the 15th-century one at Magdalen Laver. Its cover, made up of 15th-and 18th-century fragments of oak, was added in 1908."" [cf. FontNotes]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11821HAT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Feathers Hill, Hatfield Broad Oak, Bishop's Stortford 7HG, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Essex, East

Directions to Site: Located on the B183, SE of Bishop's Stortford, 10 km SW of Great Dunmow [to the S of London Stansted airport], 11 km NE of Harlow

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford

Historical Region: Hundred of Harlow

Century and Period: 10th - 11th century, Pre-Conquest

Cognate Fonts: enlarged copy of the font at Magdalen Laver

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Hatfield in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL5416/hatfield-broad-oak/] [accessed 16 May 2018]; it mentions a church in it. Only the font cover is noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (Essex, 1916-1923): "of oak, each side with cinquefoiled headand tracery, moulded standards. pyramidal spire with open traceried sides, made up of various fragments, 15th and 18th-century; recently purchased from a dealer" [NB: the RCHM does not list any materials from post-1714, and we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 8, 1983) notes: "A church probably existed on the present site before the Conquest [...] The font, made in 1897, is an enlarged facsimile of the 15th-century one at Magdalen Laver. Its cover, made up of 15th-and 18th-century fragments of oak, was added in 1908." The present font appears modern, but of standard Perpendicular design: octagonal, with quatrefoiled panels on the basin sides, floral motifs on the underbowl chamfer, and trefoiled panels on the stem. The wooden cover is octagonal, of open-work [cf. supra]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.825733, 0.241949

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 49′ 32.64″ N, 0° 14′ 31.01″ E

UTM: 31U 309941 5745253

LID INFORMATION

Date: 15th and 18th century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-05-16 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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