Meonstoke No. 1 / Manestoke / Maonestoke / Menestoch / Menestoche / Menestoke / Mienestoch / Moenestoke / Munestoke / Munestokes

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 20?

Scene Description: ten arches per side, on the two of the sides visible in this image: east and north

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design element - motifs - floral or foliage - 4

Scene Description: one at each angle of the upper rim surface; they appear to be made of three leaves each

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: on one of the hidden sides; the west?

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: the remains of the four mouldings that would have served as bases to the four outer colonnettes of the base [now missing]

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design element - motifs - zigzag

Scene Description: on one of the hidden sides; the south?

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pterre, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 March 2008 by Pterre

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view of font - northeast sides

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06751MEO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Church Ln, Meonstoke, Southampton SO32 3NE, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1489 877512
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located just E of the A32, about 25 km ESE of Winchester, 5 km ENE of Bishop's Waltham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Portsmouth
Historical Region: Hundred of Meonstoke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of S aisle
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional
There are two entries for Meonstoke [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU6120/meonstoke/] [accessed 27 June 2018], neither of which reports priest or church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Transitional period, ca. 1200, made of Purbeck marble in this church. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "The main fabric of the church dates from the thirteenth century, with no trace of earlier work [...] The font at the west end of the south aisle is of a late twelfth-century type, with a square bowl on a central shaft, formerly flanked by four shafts at the angles. Its material is probably Purbeck marble, but it is covered by a coat of dark grey paint mottled with white spots in imitation of such a marble, and its real surface cannot be seen. The bowl has arcades on the east and north faces, and zigzag patterns and what seem to be trefoiled leaves on the west." Described in the Bridge Churches benefice web site [www.bridgechurches.org.uk/church_meonstoke.htm]: "This is original and is constructed of Purbeck marble and lead. There were four angle shafts as well and you can see traces of those. The top has leaf-like decoration at each corner, a circle of leaflets and small fruit round the bowl and on the sides different bands of damaged decoration. The bowl itself has a plughole and near it vestiges of a fastening for plug and chain."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.978234, -1.129342
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 58′ 41.64″ N, 1° 7′ 45.63″ W
UTM: 30U 631320 5649070

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-05-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907