Great Hormead
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11928HOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas, Great Hormead
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17553641
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Horseshoe Ln, Great Hormead, Buntingford SG9 0NH, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1763 289258
Site Location: Hertfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located ENE of Buntingford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertforshire (1911): "Font: plain octagonal basin on eight plain circular shafts, late 12th-century." In Pevsner & Cherry (1977): "Font. Norman, undecorated, on thick circular stem and eight shafts set around."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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. 102
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Hertfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977, p. 152