Stogursey / Estocha / Estoche / Stoke Courcy / Stoke Coursley / Stourgursey

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design element - motifs - X in a square or inscribed saltire?

Scene Description: the interior of the square shows the X motif as if it were in a padded back -- the upper rim is much damaged

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4447101] [accessed 7 March 2018]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: very thick, all around the middle of the basin

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human figure - head - grotesque of fantastic?

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stogursey: St Andrew's Church: Norman Font. One of four mysterious heads on the font with its unexplained symbol on the forehead."

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human figure - head - grotesque of fantastic?

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stogursey: St Andrew's Church: Norman Font. One of four mysterious heads on the font with its unexplained symbol on the forehead."

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4447101] [accessed 7 March 2018]

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human figure - head - grotesque of fantastic?

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stogursey: St Andrew's Church: Norman Font. One of four mysterious heads on the font with its unexplained symbol on the forehead." [NB: this head does not appear to have any symbol on the forehead]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4447085] [accessed 7 March 2018]

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human figure - head - grotesque of fantastic?

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stogursey: St Andrew's Church: Norman Font. One of four mysterious heads on the font with its unexplained symbol on the forehead."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4447074] [accessed 7 March 2018]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stogursey: St Andrew's Church: The Nave. Looking towards the Norman crossing (1090-1100) and pulpit on the left".

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 May 2011 by JohnArmagh [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StogurseyPriory.JPG] [accessed 7 March 2018]

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view of church interior - capital

Scene Description: one of several from the Norman church here

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4447329] [accessed 7 March 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Cutts, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2008 by Robert Cutts [https://flickr.com/photos/21678559@N06/2878504285] [accessed 7 March 2018]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stogursey: St Andrew's Church: Lilstock Norman Font. Unusually, St Andrews has two fonts; this one, also believed to be Norman, was brought from the redundant church of St Andrews, Lilstock."

view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stogursey: St Andrew's Church: Norman Font"

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view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nick Macneill, 2010

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 May 1988 by ncik macneill [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2145104] [accessed 8 March 2018]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stogursey: St Andrew's Church: Norman Font. Situated in the North Transept, it is decorated with four mysterious heads, three of which have strange symbols on their foreheads for which no explanation has been made."

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4447398] [accessed 7 March 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07097STO
Church/Chapel: Parish [formerly a priory] Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: 4 Church St, Stogursey, Bridgwater TA5 1TQ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A39, E of Stringston, 15 km NW of Bridgwater
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Cannington
Font Location in Church: Stogursey's own font is located inside the church, in the N transept
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Cognate Fonts: Ornamental similarities with the fonts at Essay, Montebourg, Chaddesley Corbett, Eardisley, etc.
There is an entry for Stogursey [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST2042/stogursey/] [accessed 7 March 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Antiquary (No. 33, vol 6, September 1882: 130) notes that the name of the locality appears in the Exon Domesday Book as "Estocha"; it also describes the font as "a fine Norman one". Kelly's Directory of 1883 reports that this church "retains an early Norman font". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Wade & Wade (1929) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. [NB: C&H list this site as "Stoke Coursey"; the more current spelling is 'Stogursey', although 'Stourgursey' and 'Stoke Courcy' are also known]. Stone (1955) notes: "One mask on the font at Stogursey [...] actually bears a double curving volute on the forehead whose ancestry can be traced back to pre-Roman art in England." In Pevsner (1958), who mentions "four masks, very elementary in the carving." Referred to by M. Bayle in the catalogue entry for the Montebourg font in "Les siècles romans en Basse-Normandie" (1985) as having heads or masks like the font at Montebourg [cf. Index entry for Montebourg]. The Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 6, 1992) informs: "a Norman tub font with four faces, standing on reset medieval tiles in the north transept, and a second Norman font from Lilstock." [NB: a Perpendicular font from Stogursey was moved to the nearby Church of St. Peter, Stolford, according to the VCH [ibid]]. The entry for the parish of Lilstock in the Victoria County Histroy (Somerset, vol. 5, 1985) notes: "A 12th-century font remained in the former chancel until its removal to Stogursey church in 1981."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.1795, -3.1389
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 10′ 46.2″ N, 3° 8′ 20.04″ W
UTM: 30U 490291 5669795

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

REFERENCES

"Les siècles romans en Basse-Normandie", Printemps 1985, 92, Art de Basse-Normandie, 1985
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-04-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-03-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Somersetshire with the city of Bristol, London: Kelly & Co., 1883
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Stone, Lawrence, Sculpture in Britain: the Middle Ages, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1955
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929