Stretton Sugwas No. 1 / Stratone / Sucwessen

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 1998 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3883952] [accessed 10 February 2015]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: N/Adigital photograph taken 11 April 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3926282] [accessed 10 February 2015]

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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stretton Sugwas Church. The greatest of the treasures in the church is the Samson Tympanum, as you walk in at the South door it faces you above the door to the belfry. It is a semi-circular carving of breath taking beauty, depicting Samson seated astride a lion and forcing its jaws open with bare hands. It is a brilliant example of the work of the great mediaeval sculptor known as the Chief Master , working under the patronage of Sir Ralph de Baskerville."

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by Julian P Guffogg [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2557466] [accessed 10 February 2015]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary Magdalene, Stretton Sugwas. Rebuilt on a new site in 1877-80 by local architect William Chick. The timbered tower was re-erected on a new base. Kept locked, unfortunately." FONT+COVER digital photograph taken 12 August 1998 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3883952] [accessed 10 February 2015] FONT CRSBI photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/599/] [accessed 10 February 2015] NO-P FONT DETAIL photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/599/] [accessed 10 February 2015] NO-P

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 April 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3926264] [accessed 10 February 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 1998 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3883951] [accessed 10 February 2015]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 1998 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3883952] [accessed 10 February 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05919STR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene

Church Location: Stretton Sugwas, Herefordshire, HR4 7PT

Country Name: England

Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the A438, 4 kms WNW of of Hereford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, towards the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Norman? / Transitional?

Cognate Fonts: Little Billing, East Challow, Poltimore

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Stretton [Sugwas] [variant spelling] and Sugwas in the Domesday survey http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7306627?descriptiontype=Full&ref=E+31/2/1/7353] [accessed 10 February 2015]. A font in this church is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907: 201) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928: 25) as an early mounted baptismal stone font with a girding around it. The inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: 176) dates it to the 13th century. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2015): "The font is of a common Herefordshire form, and may be compared with the restored example at Sutton St Nicholas, and the more elaborate type with a cable-moulded roll found at Peterchurch, Blakemere and Humber. [...] The font is monolithic, of sandstone, but carved in two sections separated by a heavy projecting roll. The upper part, or bowl, is cup-shaped with a chamfered upper rim. The part below the roll is simply tapered. It stands on a chamfered base and a drum-shaped plinth, with a modern octagonal step. The bowl is lead lined and there are rim repairs at E, NE and S." [cf. Index entry for Stretton Sugwas No. 2 for a 12th-century stoup (?) in the S porch of thios church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.073708, -2.790742

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 4′ 25.35″ N, 2° 47′ 26.67″ W

UTM: 30U 514342 5769257

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Rim Thickness: 9 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 52 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 68 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 59 cm*

Basin Total Height: 77 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2015)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, with rope moulding around the side, metal decoration and ring handle; Victorian?

REFERENCES

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: 2015-02-10 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

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

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928