Norton nr. Letchworth / Northona / Nortona / Nortone

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design element - motifs - panel

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 September 2014 by Humphrey Bolton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4190737] [accessed 27 September 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Nicholas's Church, Norton. The nave of the church was built in the 11C to 12C, according to the listing details, and the tower added in the 15C."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 August 2004 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/361550] [accessed 27 September 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11971NOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Church Lane, Norton, Hertfordshire SG6 1AH

Country Name: England

Location: Hertfordshire, East

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A1, just NW of Baldock. Norton is now a suburb of Letchworth Garden City

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans

Historical Region: Hundred of Broadwater [in Domesday] / Hundred of Cashio

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century [base only] -- 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Church Notes: original church may have been here since ca.1000

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Norton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL2334/norton/] [accessed 27 September 2016]; it mentions a priest but not a church, though there must have been one there. The Victoria County History (Hertfordshire, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The church of Norton belonged to the abbey of St. Albans, […] but the donor is not known. It is probable that there was a church here at an early date, for there was a priest at Norton at the time of the Domesday Survey. […] The church was confirmed to the abbey by Pope Honorius III in 1219 […] A dedication of the church by Herbert Losinga, bishop of Norwich (1094–1119), is recorded, […] and it is possible that the chancel arch, and parts of the east, north, and south walls of the nave may belong to his time […] The font is at the west end of the nave, and has a plain octagonal bowl of the fifteenth century, painted to imitate marble, and a re-worked panelled stem." The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911) reports: "Font: octagonal bowl, much scratched, re-worked panelled stem, 13th-century."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.995388, -0.207564

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 59′ 43.4″ N, 0° 12′ 27.23″ W

UTM: 30U 691704 5764208

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat platform with centre pivot finial/handle

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-09-27 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