Higham Gobion / Echam / Hecham / Heghham / Heyham
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2006 by Rodney Burton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/194157] [accessed 14 May 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 18039HIG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret [aka St. Mary's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: Higham Road, Higham Gobion, Hertfordshire, SG5 3HP
Country Name: England
Location: Bedfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located between Shillington and Barton-le-Clay, 10 km SE of Ampthill, 11 km W of Hitchin
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Flitt
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The church of Higham Gobion was in the gift of Markyate Priory from the date of the foundation of that monastery in 1154 [...] The church of St. Mary or St. Margaret [...] has been much modernized. [...] The font has an octagonal bowl and stem of rather clumsy outline, and appears to be of seventeenth or eighteenth-century workmanship. [...] The registers are incomplete, the first book going from 1585". [NB: we have no information on the medieval font here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.982433, -0.394037
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 58′ 56.76″ N, 0° 23′ 38.53″ W
UTM: 30U 678956 5762292
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-05-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.