Ayot St. Peter / Aiete [Domesday] / Ayete / Ayot Montfichet / Eyott / Hayate / Little Ayot / Yate

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter's, Ayot St Peter. Spring time. The church was built in 1874. The architect was John Pollard Seddon (1827-1906)." NEW CHURCH EXT NW digital photograph taken 20 December 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/367945] [accessed 12 October 2016] INEW CHURCH NT E digital photograph taken 9 September 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/375198] [accessed 12 October 2016] MOD FONT digital photograph taken 9 September 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/375206] [accessed 12 October 2016]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 May 2015 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4468251] [accessed 12 October 2016]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 December 2005 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/367945] [accessed 12 October 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/375198] [accessed 12 October 2016]

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/375206] [accessed 12 October 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20766AYO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Ayot St Peter Road, Ayot St Peter, Hertfordshire AL6 9BG

Country Name: England

Location: Hertfordshire, East

Directions to Site: Located SE of Ayot St. Lawrence, NW of Welwyn Garden City, S of Codicote

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans

Historical Region: Hundred of Broadwater

Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Ayot [St. Peter] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL2115/ayot-st-peter/] [accessed 12 October 2016] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Hertfordshire, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The Advowson of Ayot St. Peter Church seems to have belonged to the lords of the manor from the earliest times, for it is mentioned as belonging to the lord as early as 1282 […] The church of ST. PETER has been rebuilt more than once. At the latter part of the 17th century considerable alterations were made in the church then existing, and in the middle of the 18th century the church was rebuilt. The church then erected was an octagonal brick building with a detached belfry forming the entrance to the churchyard. This church was rebuilt in a little more appropriate style in 1862. On 10 July 1874 this building was struck by lightning and burnt to the ground. As the church was some distance from the village the new building was erected on its present site;" no font is mentioned in the VCH entry. The present font is modern, described in Pevsner (1977) as being decorated with a floral frieze and marble pillars.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.819897, -0.233399

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 49′ 11.63″ N, 0° 14′ 0.23″ W

UTM: 30U 690672 5744627

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-10-12 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Hertfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977