Aspenden / Absesdene
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's Church, Aspenden, Hertfordshire"
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Image Source: edited detail of a photograph 9 September 2017 by Peter O'Connor [aka anemoneprojectors] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GOC_Buntingford%E2%80%93Aspenden_010_St_Mary's_Church,_Aspenden_(42275696791).jpg] [accessed 28 October 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary, Aspenden, Herts - East end"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph 16 June 2003 by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/355533] [accessed 28 October 2023]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11947ASP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17528996
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Aspenden, Buntingford SG9 9PG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1763 271552
Site Location: Hertfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just WSW of Buntingford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Edwinstree [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: damaged font: "much scraped"
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Aspenden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL3528/aspenden/] [accessed 28 October 2023] but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. A baptismal font here is noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertforshire (1911): "Font: octagonal, much scraped, probably late 15th-century." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TL3536428392] notes: "Parish church. Cll chancel on different alignment from late Cll nave; chancel part-rebuilt and lengthened to E in C13. S aisle c1340; W tower c1390; in late C15 SE chapel added, S aisle altered, nave heightened, new roofs to nave and aisle, and E wall of nave removed for a rood-screen; S porch built c1525 for widow of Sir Robert Clifford; SE Chapel altered 1622 for Ralph Freman of Aspenden Hall. Restored 1873 by Sir Arthur Blomfield [...] Late C15 octagonal font with plain cardinal faces but shield-in-quatrefoil on angled faces."
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.9376, -0.032328
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 56′ 15.36″ N, 0° 1′ 56.38″ W
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. 41