Meesden / Mesdone
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11970MEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary, Meesden
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17554414
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Lower Green Lane, Buntingford SG9 0AZ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1763 289258
Site Location: Hertfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km NE of Buntingford, 13 km N of Bishop's Stortford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Edwinstree [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time c hurch here?)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Meesden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL4332/meesden/] [accessed 27 June 2025]; it mentions a priest, but not a church, in it. Font noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911): "Font: of stone, with paneled sides, 17th-century."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
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. 150