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view of church exterior - northeast end
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church interior - chancel - painting
Scene Description: a Deposition of Christ recovered on the west side of the chancel wall
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: notice the mural painting to the left [north] of the chancel arch
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the font ilooks modern, but the basin is medieval, decorated with a now very faint blind arcade around the broad moulding at the top; the cover and the base are definitely modern
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14149BEN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Church Location: 34 St Leonard's Road, Bengeo, Hertford SG14 3JW
Country Name: England
Location: Hertfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B158, 2 km NNE of Hertford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Hertford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only] [composite font?], Medieval / composite
There are nine entries for Bengeo [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3213/bengeo/] [accessed 1 November 2016], none of which mentions a church in it; one of the nine entries, in the tenancy of Geoffrey de Bec, mentions a priest sharing the lordship of the place with "a Frenchman" in 1086, which probably means there was a church there as well. The Victoria County History (Hefrtford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "A priest is mentioned in the Domesday Survey as holding land of Geoffrey de Bech. [...] In 1156 the church of Bengeo was granted to the monks of Bermondsey by Reginald de Tany. The grant was confirmed by Henry II in 1159 [...] The [present] church is of early 12th-century date; windows have been inserted in later periods and a south porch was added in the 18th century; the bellcote is modern"; no font mentioned in the VCH entry. The parish web site [http://stleonards.parishofbengeo.com/church/st-leonards-nave.html] [accessed 1 November 2016] informs: "The bowl of the font is Norman work and was rescued from a neighbouring garden in the 19th century. Presumably it had been taken from the church during the Commonwealth period." The present font appears modern but the basin looks medieval; it is square at the top with a broad flat moulding decorated with very shallow round arches, almost indescernible now; plain rounded underbowl it is raised on a modern octagonal-to-square pedestal base decorated with several mouldings. The wooden cover consists of a plain square platform with four vertical scroll ribs around a central pivot; ball finial; appears modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.805676,
-0.072223
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 48′ 20.44″ N,
0° 4′ 20″ W
UTM: 30U 701842 5743480
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-11-01 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.