Waterford is a village in the
East Hertfordshire district of
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ...
, England. It is located on the A119 road, around 2.5 km (1.6 miles) north of
Hertford
Hertford ( ) is the county town of Hertfordshire, England, and is also a civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of the county. The parish had a population of 26,783 at the 2011 census.
The town grew around a ford on the River Lea, ne ...
. The
River Beane flows through the village. It is in the
civil parish of
Stapleford.
Waterford is most notable for the church of St Michael and All Angels, built by
Robert and Isabel Smith in 1871/2,
[''And Such A Name, The Recollections of Mrs Robert Smith of Goldings'', Dorothy Abel Smith, 2015] which has
Pre-Raphaelite stained-glass windows from the
Morris & Co. factory. They date from the church's original construction through to 1937 and include ''Miriam'' by
Edward Burne-Jones.
St Michael and All Angels is an excellent example of Victorian construction in the Early English Gothic style. It was financed by Robert Smith, owner of the
Goldings estate close to the church. All wood used in constructing the church came from the Estate. The roof is lined with
Broseley tiles and the bell tower and octagonal spire with cedar shingles. The porch is of oak construction.
There are 14 stained-glass windows; eight by Burne-Jones, and others by
William Morris,
Douglas Strachan,
Ford Madox Brown,
Karl Parsons and
Selwyn Image. Tracery above the three west windows was done by
Philip Webb.
Goldings
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As there are male and female plants, the flowers (cones) of the female plant are fertilized by the pollen of the male flowers with the result that the female fl ...
is a
Grade II* listed country house which was used as a
Dr. Barnardo's Home between 1922 and 1967 and has now been converted to apartments. Several Barnardo's children are buried in St Michael's churchyard, which also contains graves of the
Abel Smith family including Robert and Isabel Smith.
[http://www.goldonian.org/sub_pages/goldings_history.htm]
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Villages in Hertfordshire
Stained glass