Bushey / Bisheye / Bisse / Bissei / Bisshe / Bissheye / Hartshead / Hertesheved
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view of church exterior - north view
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view of church exterior - west view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/353519] [accessed 27 July 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/354622] [accessed 27 July 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20680BUS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Church Address: Rectory Lane, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire WD2 1BD
Site Location: Hertfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located between the A4140 [aka London Rd / High St] (W) and the A41 and M1 (E), SE of Watford, near the boundary with the London Borough of Harrow
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Danish [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Dacorum
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Bushey [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ1395/bushey/] [accessed 27 July 2016), but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Hertford, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "Its existence as a separate parish probably dates from about 1166, when an agreement was made between Robert abbot of St. Albans, and Geoffrey de Jarpenville as to the church of Hertesheved otherwise called Bussheye. […] It underwent a thorough 'restoration' in 1871 at the hands of Sir Gilbert Scott […] The font, at the west end of the nave, is modern, having a square bowl on a central stem and four angle shafts." The present marble font is late-19th century, probably from the Scott restoration noted in the VCH entry. [NB: the church at Bushey Heath is 19th-century]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 682131 5724853
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.645144, -0.367536
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 38′ 42.52″ N, 0° 22′ 3.13″ W
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.