Baptismal Font - All Saints' Church, Church Lane, Dane End, Little Munden, Hertfordshire. SG12 0NR
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greysman
N 51° 52.773 W 000° 03.772
30U E 702155 N 5751719
A small parish church with an exceptionally interesting interior and fine monuments.
Waymark Code: WMXMTH
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/30/2018
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This relatively isolated parish church is Grade I listed. It consists of a C11th nave and chancel, a C14th north aisle and west half of the north-east chapel, C15th west tower and east part of the north-east chapel. The church was restored by G. and H. Godwin in 1868-9 (Pevsner) or 1870-75 (board in Church) when the north and south porches and the south vestry were added.
Built of flint rubble with flint facing and stone dressings with steep old red tile roofs, and a lead spike with weather vane on the tower and looks quite ordinary from the outside. Inside a tall rectangular nave leads to a narrower square-ended chancel with an C11th arched opening in line with the north door indicating an original north porticus or aisle. Originally the imposts supported a round arch but this was given a pointed arch in the 1868 restoration but the capitals each side retain three projecting rolls with herringbone hatching. Together with the small, plain and much renewed C12th south door in the chancel this proves the chancel and nave as being 800yrs old.
The font is at the west end of the nave next to the srairs to the organ loft. It is octagonal on an octagonal stem, C15th, with the panels round the bowl carved with foliage and geometric designs. The bowl is supported on a stem with recessed panels and hanging ogee braces, and has a chamfered top with a plain timber cover.
Words variously from British Listed Buildings and Pevsner's Hertfordshire Buildings, amended and added to with own on-site observations.
Co-ordinates are for the south porch.