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

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11951CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1452?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (mid?), Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Mission Church of St. Stephen
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen [originally from the Parish Church of St. John the Baptist]
Previous Font Location(s): originally from the Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Bells' Hill, Barnet, Hertfordshire EN5 2UR, UK
Site Location: Greater London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Chipping 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
Additional Comments: recycled font (originally from St. John's; now used in a new church
Font Notes:
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