Staunton on Wye / Standune / Staunton-on-Wye

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary, Staunton on Wye. On an ancient site, above Oakchurch Farm shop and with commanding views over the Wye Valley."

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the old font is partially visible in the foregorund, righ-hand corner, by the south entranceway

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 May 2005 by Ron Baxter in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1710/] [accessed 13 December 2018]

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view of font

Scene Description: the altered, probably re-cut font

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Image Source: Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. III: pl. 56)

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view of font

Scene Description: the altered, probably re-cut font

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 May 2005 by Ron Baxter in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1710/] [accessed 13 December 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07355STA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Rd, Staunton on Wye, Hereford HR4 7NE, UK -- Tel.: +44 121 625 6835
Country Name: England
Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A438, 16 km WNW of Hereford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Stepleset
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave, S side
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
There are two entries for Staunton [-on-Wye] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO3645/staunton-on-wye/] [accessed 13 December 2018] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907: 228) list a baptismal font of the Decorated period here. Described and illustrated in the inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. III: p. 185 and pl. 56): "Font[...]: round cup-shaped bowl with moulded necking, round stem and moulded base, early 13th-century." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO3754644833] notes: "Parish church. C12, C13 and C14, partly rebuilt in 1720 with later alterations. [...] Font is probably early C13. Tapered round bowl and and cylindrical stem." The entry for this church in Herefordshire Through Time [https://htt.herefordshire.gov.uk/her-search/monuments-search/search/Monument?ID=7235] [accessed 13 December 2018] notes: "Norman south doorway, capitals and detail of architecture point to late 12th century date. [...] he bowl of the font has probably been cut down. The basin is bucket shaped. The mouldings suggest a late Norman date, 1170-80. The cover is modern. The whole font has been painted grey. These alterations may date to the repair of the church in 1867." [NB: the HTT gives "Article in serial: Marshall, George. 1950. Fonts in Herefordshire, Part II. Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club. {3}. Pages 46." as source. The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018), however, dates the font to the 12th century: "At the W end of the nave towards the S side is a 12thc font consisting of an unlined chalice-shaped bowl on a later moulding of cima profile, with a cylindrical stem, perhaps original, on a chamfered drum base with no step. The interior of the bowl is chamfered at the upper rim". The CRSBI entry (ibid.) further notes: " for the Herefordshire Sites and Monuments Record the central capital is ‘so enormous and crude that it looks 11th century’. They also suggest a date 0f 1170-80 for the font, and suggest that the bowl may have been cut down. The upper rim is certainly suspiciously crisp."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.09804, -2.9131
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 5′ 52.94″ N, 2° 54′ 47.16″ W
UTM: 30U 505953 5771946

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: many
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (inside rim): 49 cm* [chamfered to 56 cm]*
Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm*
Basin Total Height: 31 cm*
Height of Central Column: 42 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 103 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2018)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with carved top; modern

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2018-12-13 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934