Baptismal Font - St.Mary the Virgin, Broadwater Lane, Aston, Hertfordshire. SG2 7EN - Stone Church Artefacts on Waymarking.com

This is a Grade II* listed parish church with the nave and chancel of c1230, the west tower late C14th or early C15th with low pitched timber roofs and new windows of the late C15th. There was a restoration in 1850 which also gave the north aisle followed in 1883 by a general restoration when the north vestry and south porch were rebuilt by W O Milne of London. The alabaster reredos with mosaic panels is also by Milne in 1896.

Built of flint rubble with a rough plastered finish and corbelled brick crenellated parapet to the tower with stone dressings and tiled buttress offsets. There is a knapped flint uncoursed facing to the rest of the church with stone dressings and flushwork chequer of stone and flint on the porch. A copper low pitched roof to the chancel - similar behind the nave's crenellated parapet, lead roof and 'Hertfordshire Spike' with vane on the tower, slate roof to the north-east vestry.

It is a picturesque regular church with a two-bay low chancel, taller three-bay nave with three-bay arcade and a north aisle, a square two-stage tower with large diagonal buttresses each with five tiled offsets, a gabled south porch and gabled north-east vestry with chimney and organ chamber.

The font is placed in the usual position just in front of the tower arch and is in excellent condition. It's marble, octagonal on an octagonal stem on a base with rearward extension. The eight panels of the bowl are filled with stylised roses between stylised foliage and has a stepped tapering upper rim. The stem has nodding ogee arches, crocketed at the bowl lower edge with cherubs. A timber cover with cast iron detail finished the ensemble.

Words from British Listed Buildings and amended and added to with own on-site observations.

Co-ordinates are for the south porch.

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