Stoke Goldington / Stoches / Stocking / Stok Goldington / Stokes
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01352STO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: 6 Dag Lane, Stoke Goldington, Milton Keynes MK16 8NZ
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the B526, just N of the M1, 6 km WSW of Olney, 6 NW of Newport Pagnell, 16 km N of Milton Keynes, 20 km SSE of Northampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Bunsty [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Newport
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, S aisle, W end
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There are two entries for Stoke [Goldington] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8348/stoke-goldington/] [accessed 25 February 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Parker (1850), Sheahan (19862) and Cox & Harvey (1907) report a baptismal font of the Norman period here. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The earliest part of the structure is the nave, which is shown by the chancel arch to be of the early 12th century. [...] The font is quite plain, and has a tapered circular bowl of the 12th or 13th century." Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2016): "At the W end of the S aisle is a plain, tub-shaped font on a drum base. The bowl has three horizontal circumferential cracks. All have been repaired and the sections below the top crack have been treated with a yellowish protective coating. The top section, comprising approximately one-third of the height of the bowl, has been tooled and is uncoated. The bowl is lead lined, and on the rim is an insert repair at the S, and a filled hole at the N, suggesting the removal of staples."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.133963,
-0.787323
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 8′ 2.27″ N,
0° 47′ 14.36″ W
UTM: 30U 651438 5778247
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: bucket-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 8.75 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 57 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 74.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 63 cm*
Height of Base: 15 cm [calculated]
Font Height (less Plinth): 78 cm*
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-04-12 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2016-02-25 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850