Little Berkhamsted / Berchehamstede
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Andrew's church, Little Berkhamsted. The church originates from the mid C17 but was virtually rebuilt in 1857."
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christine Matthews, 2006
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in October 1999 by Christine Matthews [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/102087] [accessed 2 November 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: view into the chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/355371] [accessed 2 November 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20783BER
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: 1 Church Road, Little Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire SG13 8LY
Country Name: England
Location: Hertfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located just W of Bayford, SW of Hertford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Hertford
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest
Church Notes: no details of the original church available but it was re-built ca. 1647 on the site of an earlier building, of which building very little remains
There is an entry for Little Berkhamsted [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL2907/little-berkhamsted/] [accessed 2 November 2016], but it mentions no church in it; the Domesday entry shows a priest named Saemer as one of the three lords here in 1066, which may mean that there was a church here before the Conquest. The Victoria County History (Hertford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "Hugh de Scales, lord of the manor in the 12th century, gave the church of Little Berkhampstead to the priory of Lewes [...] The church is said to have been rebuilt about 1647 on the site of an older building, but the only remains of that date are parts of the east and west walls, the rest of the church being modern"; there is no font mentioned in the VCH entry, but it gives the date for the first register for baptisms, burials and marriages as starting in 1647. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL2921007886] (1966) reports an octagonal font introduced in the S. Harris' restoration of 1894.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.755072,
-0.129292
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 45′ 18.26″ N,
0° 7′ 45.45″ W
UTM: 30U 698130 5737697
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-11-02 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
