Chipping Barnet No. 2 / Chaeping Barnet / Chepyng Barnet / High Barnet / La Barnette / La Bernete Abbis
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: EXT E digital photograph taken 25 October 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3180852] [accessed 21 September 2016]
EXT SW digital photograph taken 25 October 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3180856] [accessed 21 September 2016]
INT E digital photograph taken 25 October 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3180860] [accessed 21 September 2016]
INT W digital photograph taken 25 October 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3180870] [accessed 21 September 2016]
MOD FONT CNTXT digital photograph taken 25 October 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3180896] [accessed 21 September 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: with the modern font and cover visible at the far [west] end
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font and cover of the late-19thC Butterfield restoration
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11914CHI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: A1000, Barnet, Greater London EN5 4BW
Country Name: England
Location: Greater London, South East
Directions to Site: Chpping Barnet is now part of Greater London, Borough of Barnet, 17 km NW of Charing Cross
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Cashio -- formerly Hertfordshire
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
No entry for Chipping Barnet found in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Hertfordshire, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The church of Chipping Barnet belonged to the abbey of St. Albans before the Dissolution. It was apparently a chapel belonging to East Barnet. […] The building assumed its present form in 1875, having been before that date of much smaller dimensions. […] As a result of these transformations, due to Mr. Butterfield, the architectural history of the church cannot be carried back very far. A plan is fortunately preserved in the library of the Society of Antiquaries of London, which shows that its dimensions were, chancel 16 ft. by 19 ft. wide, nave about 60 ft. long and 19 ft. wide at the east, narrowing regularly to 16 ft. at the west. The width between the aisle walls was, however, at west as at east, 49 ft. 3 in., so that the aisles were wider at the west than at the east. Remains of fourteenth-century work are said to have existed in the north wall of the north aisle, and it is clear that the aisle walls were the earliest existing parts of the building. […] The font at the west end of the nave is modern, with a tall oak cover, superseding a plain octagonal font. The ancient font, probably made in 1452, […] is now in the mission church of St. Stephen, having been found a few years ago in a garden, much mutilated." [cf. Index entry for Chipping Barnet No. 1 for the 15th-century font originally from this church]. Tompkins (1922) mentions a "beautifully carved font screen, pinnacled and crocketted". The font is noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1977) as a baptismal font "by Butterfield" [NB: William Butterfield (1814-1900), pioneer of High Victorian Gothic revival architecture]. The medieval church was rebuilt in the 15th century, and later enlarged in the 1870s under the direction of Butterfield -- cf. Chipping Barnet No. 1 for the old font now in a new church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.653229,
-0.200855
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 39′ 11.62″ N,
0° 12′ 3.08″ W
UTM: 30U 693626 5726181
REFERENCES
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Hertfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977
Tompkins, Herbert Winckworth, Hertfordshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1922