Furneux Pelham
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view of font in context
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W negative of a Church font, Furneaux Pelham, Herts, taken on 20 July 1940 showing a church font [ref.: UKC-RUR-MUG-BW.F223403] University of Kent, Library Services, Special Collections
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/356537] [accessed 7 August 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/356533] [accessed 7 August 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11927FUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church at the W end of the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: The Street, Furneux Pelham, Hertfordshire, UK
Site Location: Hertfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located E of Buntingford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis of St. Albans
Additional Comments: altered font / composite font? (the pedestal base appears to be of a later date) -- damaged font: badly cracked/broken horizontally through the middle
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertforshire (1911): "Font: Purbeck marble bowl, 13th-century." Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble' "clunch pedestal is 15th century" [NB: Leach has it as "Furneaux Pelham"]. In Pevsner & Cherry (1977): "Font: Octagonal, C13, of Purbeck marble, with shallow blank pointed arches." The basin is raised on n octagonal pedestal base of later date; it is moulded at the top, has panels on the sides (some trefoiled, some plain rectangular); the splaying lower base is also octagonal. There is a horizontal crack through the middle of the basin; it has been crudely repaired with cement (?).
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 299334 5757492
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.931921, 0.081118
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 55′ 54.92″ N, 0° 4′ 52.03″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
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, p. 91
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 76
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Hertfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977, p. 144