Baptismal Font - Church of St Mary, Church Lane, Graveley, Hertfordshire. SG4 7LY
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greysman
N 51° 56.272 W 000° 12.301
30U E 692124 N 5757818
This small C12th parish church in the country well outside the modern village has a C15th font.
Waymark Code: WMX30G
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/19/2017
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This parish church is Grade I listed and consists of; Nave C12th Norman; chancel enlarged from smaller semi-circular aspidal form in the early C13th ( some original Norman work can be seen in the western part of the Chancel ); west tower c1480; nave heightened and re-roofed in C15th; south porch probably C18th; north aisle, north vestry and general restoration 1887. Built of flint rubble with stone dressings, the steep old red tile roofs, pyramidal to the tower topped by lead covered standing cross with octagonal tapered shaft. Low pitched lead roof to the nave.
The octagonal limestone font is of the C15th with trefoil sinkings around the bowl and an octagonal shaft with moulded base. It is at the western end of the nave and has an round C19th wooden cover carved with sprays of flowers in relief and a central handle in iron scroll-work.
Words variously from British Listed Buildings, Pevsner's Hertfordshire Buildings, and amended and added to with own on-site observations.
Co-ordinates are for the south porch.