Church Stretton / Stratun

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coat of arms - 2

or purely decorative; both shields are identical and inside a foilated frame
Scene Description: or purely decorative; both shields are identical and inside a foilated frame
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 7 August 2009 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1443900] [accessed 24 June 2015]
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design element - motifs - floral

inside a geometrical pattern shaped like a 8-point star that can also be read as a cross
Scene Description: inside a geometrical pattern shaped like a 8-point star that can also be read as a cross
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 7 August 2009 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1443900] [accessed 24 June 2015]
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design element - motifs - moulding

one at each end of the stem
Scene Description: one at each end of the stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2009 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1443900] [accessed 24 June 2015]
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symbol - star - 8-point

a geometrical pattern shaped like a 8-point star that can also be read as a cross, with floral motifs inside
Scene Description: a geometrical pattern shaped like a 8-point star that can also be read as a cross, with floral motifs inside
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 7 August 2009 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1443900] [accessed 24 June 2015]
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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Source caption: ""Sheela-Na-Gig. A pagan fertility symbol inserted into the walls of the church. The name is of Irish origin meaning 'Sheila of the paps'."
Scene Description: Source caption: ""Sheela-Na-Gig. A pagan fertility symbol inserted into the walls of the church. The name is of Irish origin meaning 'Sheila of the paps'."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anthony Vosper, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by Anthony Vosper [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2557691] [accessed 24 June 2015]
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view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Source caption: ""Sheela-Na-Gig. A pagan fertility symbol inserted into the walls of the church. The name is of Irish origin meaning 'Sheila of the paps'."
Scene Description: Source caption: ""Sheela-Na-Gig. A pagan fertility symbol inserted into the walls of the church. The name is of Irish origin meaning 'Sheila of the paps'."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anthony Vosper, 2011
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by Anthony Vosper [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2557691] [accessed 24 June 2015]
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view of church exterior - southwest view

EXT digital photograph taken 1 June 2012 by Jeremy Bolwel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2972459] [accessed 24 June 2015] EXT SHEELA digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by Anthony Vosper [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2557691] [accessed 24 June 2015] Source caption: ""Sheela-Na-Gig. A pagan fertility symbol inserted into the walls of the church. The name is of Irish origin meaning 'Sheila of the paps'." FONT digital photograph 22 March 2015 by Steve Bulman [www.churches-uk-ireland.org/towns/c/church_stretton.html] [accessed 24 June 2015] OK FONT? THIS IS NOT THE REGULAR FONT? digital photograph taken 7 August 2009 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1443900] [accessed 24 June 2015]
Scene Description: EXT digital photograph taken 1 June 2012 by Jeremy Bolwel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2972459] [accessed 24 June 2015] EXT SHEELA digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by Anthony Vosper [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2557691] [accessed 24 June 2015] Source caption: ""Sheela-Na-Gig. A pagan fertility symbol inserted into the walls of the church. The name is of Irish origin meaning 'Sheila of the paps'." FONT digital photograph 22 March 2015 by Steve Bulman [www.churches-uk-ireland.org/towns/c/church_stretton.html] [accessed 24 June 2015] OK FONT? THIS IS NOT THE REGULAR FONT? digital photograph taken 7 August 2009 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1443900] [accessed 24 June 2015]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jeremy Bolwel, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2012 by Jeremy Bolwel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2972459] [accessed 24 June 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - detail

not a font
Scene Description: not a font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Bulman, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 22 March 2015 by Steve Bulman [www.churches-uk-ireland.org/towns/c/church_stretton.html] [accessed 24 June 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

only three sides of the basin are decorated; the other five are blank
Scene Description: only three sides of the basin are decorated; the other five are blank
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2009 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1443900] [accessed 24 June 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 07066CHU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: 36 Church Street, Church Stretton, Shropshire SY6 6AL
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A49, 22 km S of Shrewsbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Culvestan [in Domesday] - Hundred of Munslow
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes:
There is an entry for [Church] Stretton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO4593/church-stretton/] [accessed 24 June 2015]; it mentions a priest and a church in it. Anderson (1864) notes that the church here is mentioned in Domesday Book, and that it was "originally the Saxon mother church of a district". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in the Victoria County History (Shropshire, 1998): "The font [...] is 15th-century [footnote: "Bodl. MS. Top. Salop. c. 2, f. 457"]. In Newman & Pevsner (2006): "Octagonal with patterns (shields etc.) on only three faces." [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.538215, -2.808353
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 32′ 17.57″ N, 2° 48′ 30.07″ W
UTM: 30U 512998 5820920

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, with moulded sides; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-09-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006