Walkern / Walchra / Walkre / Wauker / Waukre

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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 4

Scene Description: constructional at the angles

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: some of them patterned [serrated?]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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design element - motifs - moulding - multiple

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - Holy Rood - fragment?

Scene Description: The Victoria County History (Hertfordshire. Vol. 3, 1912) notes: "the earliest part of the existing church is the nave, which dates from the 11th century and is probably part of the pre-Conquest church […] On the south side of the south wall of the nave [...] are the remains of a rood of very early date, about 4 ft. 6 in. high, carved in chalk. It [...] affords additional evidence of the pre-Conquest date assigned to the nave".

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11942WAL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church End, Walkern, Hertfordshire SG2 7PB
Country Name: England
Location: Hertfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B1037, ENE of Stevenage
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Broadwater
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 14th century (late?), Perpendicular
There is an entry for Walkern [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL2826/walkern/] [accessed 17 October 2016]; it mentions a priest but not a church in it, though there must have been one there. The Victoria County History (Hertfordshire. Vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The original church consisted probably of a chancel and nave. The former has been wholly rebuilt, and the earliest part of the existing church is the nave, which dates from the 11th century and is probably part of the pre-Conquest church […] On the south side of the south wall of the nave, rather westward of the middle and above the arcade, and so now included in the south aisle, are the remains of a rood of very early date, about 4 ft. 6 in. high, carved in chalk. It probably indicates the position of the original south doorway of the nave, over which it stood, and affords additional evidence of the pre-Conquest date assigned to the nave. […] The font is of the late 14th century and is made of clunch, octagonal in shape and roughly moulded. It has plain sides and angle shafts." Described in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertforshire (1911) in much the same terms as in the VCH above. In Pevsner & Cherry (1977): "Font. Octagonal, with coarse corbelled-out shafts in front of the diagonal panels (C14?)" The National Archives lists a 1832 drawing of this font by J.C. Buckler in the Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies [ref.: D/Z119/7/470D]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.922938, -0.122612
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 55′ 22.58″ N, 0° 7′ 21.4″ W
UTM: 30U 697853 5756379

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (clunch)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-07-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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