Heston

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view of font and cover - north side

Scene Description: the modern font in use

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1776307] [accessed 31 May 2019]

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view of font and cover - northeast side

Scene Description: the modern font in use

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1686700] [accessed 31 May 2019]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1776317] [accessed 31 May 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1776299] [accessed 31 May 2019]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12875HES

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard

Church Notes: there may have been a priest (and a church?) here as early as the 7thC

Church Address: 147 Heston Rd, Heston, Hounslow TW5 0RD , UK -- Tel.: (020) 8570 2288

Site Location: Greater London, South East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located just N of Hounslow, in the London Borough of the same name

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of London

Historical Region: formerly Middlesex

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13th-14thC church here?

Font Notes: Click to view

No individual entry found for Heston in the Domesday survey. Both font and cover at Heston's church are noted in Lysons (1795): "The font is octagonal, and has a Gothic canopy." The National Gazetteer of 1868 mentions "an octagonal font". The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Middlesex, vol. 3, 1962) notes: "The original relationship between the churches of Isleworth, Heston, Twickenham, and Hampton is not known. A priest at Isleworth, of which Heston and Twickenham were then part, was mentioned in Domesday Book, but there is no reference to one at Hampton [...] The church of ST. LEONARD, Heston, had a vicar by 1310. [...] In 1865 Heston church consisted of an aisled nave, chancel, north and south chapels, west tower, west and south porches, and a north porch then used as a vestry. There was apparently a Norman arch in the chancel and other parts of the building dated from the 13th century, but most of it seems to have been of the late 15th century. [...] In In 1865 the building was [...] rebuilt [...] The font-cover is 16th-century, though much restored", without mention of the font itself. The same occurs in Pevsner (1951): "gem of a font cover of c. 1500, octagonal, oak, of cupola shape with a finial at the top and flowing blind tracery in the panels. Unfortunately this piece [...] is much restored."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 682462 5707036

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.485, -0.372

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 29′ 6″ N, 0° 22′ 19.2″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: ca. 1500

Material: wood, oak

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868, [http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/MCX/Heston/HestonHistory.html] [accessed 27 March 2007]
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Lysons, Daniel, The Environs of London, being an historical account of the towns, villages, and hamlets, within twelve miles of that capital, London: printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1795-1796, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=45431] [accessed 27 March 2007]
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Middlesex, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1951, p. 110