Stourmouth / Ezilamerth / Sturmude Monachorum / West Stourmouth
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Scene Description: re-cut font? / modern font? [cf. FontNotes]
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design element - patterns - crenellated
![re-cut font? / modern font? [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180430003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: re-cut font? / modern font? [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 January 2018 by Colin Smith
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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: re-cut font? / modern font? [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 January 2018 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 January 2018 by Colin Smith
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view of font in context
![re-cut font? / modern font? [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180430004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: re-cut font? / modern font? [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018
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)
view of font in context
![re-cut font? / modern font? [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180430002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: re-cut font? / modern font? [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018
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)
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pam Fray, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 March 2009 by Pam Fray [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1188082] [accessed 24 October 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2004 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/325449] [accessed 24 October 2013]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06932STO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [re-cut?], Early English [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [redundant]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W of the doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: church has Saxon fabric altered in the late-13thC -- church redundant since 1979
Church Address: Church Lane, West Stourmouth, Canterbury, Kent, CT3 1HT
Site Location: Kent, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Chistlet, 8 km NW of Sandwich
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Reculver
Additional Comments: altered font? (the present one) -- disappeared font? (the fonts from the two pre-1100 churches here)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 31U 377114 5686921
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.3203, 1.2365
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 19′ 13.08″ N, 1° 14′ 11.4″ E
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, p. 58-60
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 204
- Glynne, Steven Richard, Sir, Notes on the churches of Kent, London: John Murray, 1877, p. 229
- Hasted, Edward, The History and topographical survey of the County of Kent [...], Canterbury: Printed for the author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-, vol. 9: 126-130 / [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63545] [accessed 16 February 2010]