Great Hormead

INFORMATION

FontID: 11928HOR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Country Name: England

Location: Hertfordshire, East

Directions to Site: Located ENE of Buntingford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Font Notes: Click to view

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Hertfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977