Stoke Regis

INFORMATION

FontID: 01353STO
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: [site not located]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
No individual entry found for Stoke Regis in the Domesday survey. Cox & Harvey (1907: 187) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. An article in Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization (vol. 9, 4 February 1865: 71) mentions Stoke Regis as a little village "which lies hidden in the Downshire hills", near Stoke Bewin. The National Archives has an entry for early/mid 20th-century "line engravings" by Frank Willis in the Wallace Harvey Collection [ref.: CCA-U467/S/3/1/9], one of which shows the subject "Stoke Regis Church Buckinghamshire". There is an entry for Stoke Regis Church in Lysons' Magna Britannia )London, 1808-1822, vol. 1, part 3, p. [251] 638). [unable to locate Stoke Regis and its church]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907