North Stoke nr. Bath
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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Results: 4 records
B01:
human figure - head, face or mask - 4?
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: grayscale detail of a digital photograph by John Wilkes taken 18 February 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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CR01:
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: grayscale detail of a digital photograph by John Wilkes taken 18 February 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes taken 18 February 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes taken 18 February 2008 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 07109STO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: North Stoke, Bath and North East Somerset BA1 9AT
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located just N of the A431, 8 km NW of Bath, 11 km E of Bristol
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Bath Forum
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th century / 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the bibliographical reference in the church guide book, and for his photographs of church and font.
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Wade & Wade (1929) report "a very massive rectangular font, said to be Saxon; note the roughly carved heads at the corners." Noted in the church guide book by Victoria Finlay and Martin Palmer (2nd ed., 2007), which favours the theory that this object was originally a sacrificial table carved in Roman times, and that the heads may have been carved as part of the Celtic associations with holy wells and springs. This same source suggests that the fourth head "was filed down, perhpas so the remaining three could represent the Trinity". Noted in the Benefice website [www.allsaintsonline.org.uk] [accessed 20 February 2008]: "The font is extremely plain and early decorated, square in shape with chamfered edges, and is similar to the one in Saltford church" [NB: this last comparison is an odd one, as the font at Saltford is round and has heads below the centre ring -- have written to the local source for clarification -- 20 February 2008]. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.4202,
-2.4283
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 25′ 12.72″ N,
2° 25′ 41.88″ W
UTM: 30U 539752 5696709
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: see font notes
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929
