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St Nicholas, Great Hormead, Hertfordshire

Location
(51°57′6″N, 0°2′29″E)
Great Hormead
TL 404 301
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Hertfordshire
now Hertfordshire
medieval St Albans
now St Albans
  • Hazel Gardiner
28 Aug 2004

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Feature Sets
Description

A flint rubble church with stone dressings comprising chancel, nave with N and S aisles and S porch, and W tower. The nave is 13thc, as is the N aisle. The S aisle is 14thc. The tower is late 14thc – early 15thc. The church was restored in 1872-3 by A. W. Blomfield who rebuilt the chancel, chancel arch, and S porch. The plain font is the only Romanesque feature.

History

Great and Little Hormead occur together in the Domesday Book in three separate references. The first records that lands were held by Alnoth (Grutt); Alward (the noble); Wulfwin: Esger the constable's man; and 'Freemen, seven' before the Conquest and that the overlords were Almer of Bennington; King Edward; Esger the constable; and Archbishop Stigand. After the Conquest Godwin of Hormead was Lord and Prince Edgar was tenant-in-chief. The second reference records that lands were held by Wulfward: Esger the constable's man before the Conquest and that the overlord was Esger the constable. After the Conquest 'Englishmen, two' are listed as Lord and Count Eustace of Boulogne as tenant-in-chief. The third reference records that lands were held by Wulfward: Esger the constable's man before the Conquest and that the overlord was Esger the constable. After the Conquest William was Lord and Ralph Baynard was tenant-in-chief (http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/great-and-little-hormead/).

Features

Furnishings

Fonts

Bibliography

F. Arnold-Forster, Studies in Church Dedications: or, England's patron saints, London, 1899, 156.

N. Pevsner and B. Cherry, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, 2nd ed., Harmondsworth, 1977, 152–153.

An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire, London, 1910, 102–03.

The Victoria County History: A History of the County of Hertford, London, 1914, 4:72.