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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's church Welwyn. The nave was originally built in the C12 and the chancel was added in C13. The nave was rebuilt in C15 when the south porch was added. In 1663 a storm all but destroyed he tower which was rebuilt shortly after. The tower was rebuilt again in 1910 when substantial alterations to the rest of the church were carried out." INT W digital photograph taken 9 September 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/377642] [accessed 18 October 2016] MOD FONT digital photograph taken 9 September 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/377644] [accessed 18 October 2016] COPY2007 REDUNDANT FONT digital photograph taken 27 August 2001 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/348875] [accessed 18 October 2016]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 10 May 2015 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4476611] [accessed 18 October 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the light-coloured wooden structure in the second arch west of the pulpit is the modern font canopy

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/377642] [accessed 18 October 2016]

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view of font and canopy, baldachin in context - south side

Scene Description: the modern font and canopy

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/377644] [accessed 18 October 2016]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the redundant font in the churchyard; it has an inscription below the upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2001 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/348875] [accessed 18 October 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20770WEL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 1 Codicote Road, Welwyn, Hertfordshire AL6 9LN

Country Name: England

Location: Hertfordshire, East

Directions to Site: Located SE of Codicote, 8 km N of Hatfield, NNE of Welwym Garden City up the M1,

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans

Historical Region: Hundred of Broadwater

Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest

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There are six entries for Welwyn [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL2316/welwyn/] [accessed 18 October 2016], one of which was in the lordship and tenancy of a priest, who is mentioned in the entry although no church appears in it [NB: interestingly, a priest was also lord in 1066, although it is not said whether or not it was the same priest]. The Victoria County History (Hertford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The advowson seems to have early belonged to the family of Valognes, for it appears in the possession of Robert Fitz Walter, husband of Gunnora de Valognes, in 1198 […] The plan of the nave is probably that of a 12th-century nave […] There is hardly any original detail left in the chancel, the only old work being a blocked lancet in the north wall, of late 13th-century date"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry, nor is there any mention of the pre-Conquest priest presence in this parish. The present font in use inside the church is modern (20thC?) and there is a redundant Victorian (?) font in the churchyard; it bears an inscription below the rim.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.830859, -0.214974

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 49′ 51.09″ N, 0° 12′ 53.9″ W

UTM: 30U 691895 5745894

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-10-18 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.