Long Marston nr. Hertford

INFORMATION

FontID: 20742MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church
Church Location: [NB: the still-standing tower is located at: 1 Chapel Lane, Tring Rural, Hertfordshire HP23 4QT]
Country Name: England
Location: Hertfordshire, East
Font Notes:
No entry for this Long Marston found in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History entry for Tring (Hertfordshire, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The old church of ALL SAINTS, LONG MARSTON, which stood on the west side of the village, was pulled down, except for its tower, in 1883. It was a small building with an aisleless nave and chancel, a south porch, and a west tower, and from the details preserved and incorporated in the new church, probably dated in part from the twelfth century. The tower, which still stands, is small, and of late fifteenth-century date […] The font is ancient, but its octagonal bowl has been cut back, and the necking and shaft alone preserve their old surface, appearing to be of the first half of the fourteenth century." [NB: entered under Index entry for Tring].

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-09-20 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.