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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: EXT SW digital photograph taken 17 January 2005 by Robin Hall [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/107602] [accessed 4 October 2016] INT E digital photograph taken in 2013 by Paul Simister [http://stmaryshephall.co.uk/history-of-the-church/st-marys-church-by-paul-simister/] [accessed 4 October 2016] NO KNOWN... INT W digital photograph taken in 2013 by Paul Simister [http://stmaryshephall.co.uk/history-of-the-church/st-marys-church-by-paul-simister/] [accessed 4 October 2016] NO KNOWN... MOD FONT digital photograph taken 19 February 2014 by Peter O'Connor [aka anemoneprojectors] [www.flickr.com/photos/anemoneprojectors/14834894535] [accessed 4 October 2016] CC BY-SA 2.0

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 January 2005 by Robin Hall [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/107602] [accessed 4 October 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2013 by Paul Simister [http://stmaryshephall.co.uk/history-of-the-church/st-marys-church-by-paul-simister/] [accessed 4 October 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with the modern font and cover at the far end

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2013 by Paul Simister [http://stmaryshephall.co.uk/history-of-the-church/st-marys-church-by-paul-simister/] [accessed 4 October 2016]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font in use

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2014 by Peter O'Connor [aka anemoneprojectors] [www.flickr.com/photos/anemoneprojectors/14834894535] [accessed 4 October 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11999SHE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Shephall Green, Shephall, Stevenage, Hertfordshire SG2 9XP

Country Name: England

Location: Hertfordshire, East

Directions to Site: Located 3 km SE of Stevenage

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans

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

Font Location in Church: reported in the churchyard ca. 1908

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Shephall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL2522/shephall/] [accessed 3 October 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Hertfordshire, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The church of Shephall belonged to the monastery of Reading, but was renounced by them in 1151–4 in favour of the abbey of St. Albans. […] The church was confirmed to the abbey by Pope Honorius III in 1219 […] Externally it shows nothing of age […] Within the church nothing older than the first half of the fourteenth century is to be seen. […] None of the fittings of the church are old, except the chancel screen, which is of the fifteenth century […] The font is modern, and stands at the end of the north aisle, while the old font is set in the churchyard, and is so thickly overgrown with ivy that none of its stonework can be seen." Noted in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Hertfordshire (1911) in much the same terms as in the VCH entry above. An entry in the Transactions of the Hertfordshire Archaeological Society (vol. 9, pt. 1 (1934) reports that "the old font, which is in a very dilapidated condition, may be seen in the churchyard."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.890512, -0.176281

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 53′ 25.84″ N, 0° 10′ 34.61″ W

UTM: 30U 694304 5752629

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-07-17 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