St. Albans No. 4

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Parish site [www.stmichaels-parishchurch.org.uk/gallery_2016.asp] [accessed 27 September 2016]

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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Przemysław Sakrajda, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2013 by Przemysław Sakrajda [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Albans_-_St_Michael%27s_Church.jpg] [accessed 27 September 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: seen here without the wooden support

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view of font and cover - back side

Scene Description: seen here with a wooden suupport all around

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11937ALB
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: St Michael's Street, St Albans, Hertfordshire AL3 4SH
Country Name: England
Location: Hertfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located on St. Michael's Street, off the Hemel Hempstead Road, 1.5 km W of St. Albans, W of Hemel Hampstead
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Cashio
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: original church here 10th-11thC;
No entry found for this St. Michael in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Hertfordshire, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The history of the church is a long one. The first building on the site was due to Wulsin, abbot of St. Albans in the middle of the tenth century, who founded at the same time the churches of St. Peter and St. Stephen. There are points of resemblance between these two churches of St. Stephen and St. Michael which are too marked to be accidental, and they form a valuable commentary on each other. […] The font at the west end of the nave is of the fifteenth century, with a panelled octagonal bowl, a good deal re-tooled." Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911): "Font: with octagonal bowl and quatrefoil panels in the sides, 15th-century." In Pevsner & Cherry (1977): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with quatrefoil decoration."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.7527, -0.3569
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 45′ 9.72″ N, 0° 21′ 24.84″ W
UTM: 30U 682433 5736839

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