Little Hormead

Results: 2 records

B01: design element - patterns - tracery - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B02: design element - motifs - panel - circular - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 11930HOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Hertfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located ENE of Buntingford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century (early?), Decorated
Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911): "Font: of oolite, c. 1310; sides of bowl have panels of tracery alternating with circular foiled panels: in the E. face, a shield with a fleur-de-lis." In Pevsner & Cherry (1977): "Font. Early C14, octagonal, with very pretty blank tracery."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Oolite)
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