Stourmouth / Ezilamerth / Sturmude Monachorum / West Stourmouth

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design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: re-cut font? / modern font? [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 January 2018 by Colin Smith

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design element - patterns - crenellated

Scene Description: re-cut font? / modern font? [cf. FontNotes]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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Scene Description: re-cut font? / modern font? [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 January 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of font in context

Scene Description: re-cut font? / modern font? [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 January 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of font in context

Scene Description: re-cut font? / modern font? [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 January 2018 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 29 April 2018)

INFORMATION

FontID: 06932STO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Church Lane, West Stourmouth, Canterbury, Kent, CT3 1HT

Country Name: England

Location: Kent, South East

Directions to Site: Located near Chistlet, 8 km NW of Sandwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury

Historical Region: Hundred of Reculver

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W of the doorway

Century and Period: 13th century [re-cut?], Early English [altered]

Church Notes: church has Saxon fabric altered in the late-13thC -- church redundant since 1979

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Stourmouth in the Domesdat survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TR2562/stourmouth/] [accessed 30 April 2018]; it mentions two churches in it. Hasted (1800) writes: "The font is very antient, of stone, supported by four pillars, with plain bases and capitals." In Glynne (1877): "a font which has a square bowl upon four shafts with caps and bases". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Hasted (ibid.) noted that "The church of Stourmouth was given by Hamo, son of Vitalis, to Gundulph, bishop of Rochester, and the monks of that priory", which would place the date of the donation of this church between the date of Gundulph's consecration in 1077 and that of his death in 1108, and suggest that the church existed sometime before those dates. The present font does not match the description in Hasted [cf. supra]; instead, it consists of an octagonal basin decorated at the top with a castellated pattern, the lower basin sides with stylised foliage; moulded underbowl; plain octagonal pedestal base; moulded lower base; appears modern. It does not look like a re-cut font, and is probably Victorian. [NB: we have no information on the font of that early church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.3203, 1.2365

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 19′ 13.08″ N, 1° 14′ 11.4″ E

UTM: 31U 377114 5686921

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Byrne, Matthew, Beautiful churches saved by The Churches Conservation Trust, London: Frances Lincoln, 2013

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

Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877

Hasted, Edward, The History and topographical survey of the County of Kent [...], Canterbury: Printed for the author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-