Chipping Barnet No. 1 / Chaeping Barnet / Chepyng Barnet / High Barnet / La Barnette / La Bernete Abbis

INFORMATION

FontID: 11951CHI
Church/Chapel: Mission Church of St. Stephen [originally from the Parish Church of St. John the Baptist]
Church Location: Bells' Hill, Barnet, Hertfordshire EN5 2UR
Country Name: England
Location: Greater London, South East
Directions to Site: Chpping Barnet is now part of Greater London, Borough of Barnet, 17 km NW of Charing Cross
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Cashio
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1452?
Century and Period: 15th century (mid?), Perpendicular
In its entry for [Chipping] Barnet the Victoria County History (Hertfordshire, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The ancient font, probably made in 1452, […] is now in the mission church of St. Stephen, having been found a few years ago in a garden, much mutilated." The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertforshire (1911) notes: "the old font of c. 1452 has been removed to the Mission Church of St. Stephen, a modern bulding." [cf. Index entry for Chipping Barnet No. 1 for the earlier [14thC?] font disappeared from St. John's]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 693744 5725203

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone