Stoke Albany / Stoche

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Scene Description: date: 1681

view of church exterior - southwest view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2015 by Dave Kelly [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4615112] [accessed 2 August 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07387STO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Botolph
Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Church Location: Lower Rd, Stoke Albany, Market Harborough LE16 8PZ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A427, 8 km ENE of Market Harborough, 8 km WSW of Rockingham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Stoke
Date: 1681
Century and Period: 17th century(late), Stuart
There are two entries for Stoke [Albany] [variant spelling] in the Domesday surbey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP8087/stoke-albany/] [accessed 2 August 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font dated 1681 by an inscription here. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "A raw baluster, dated 1681". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP8055188294 ] notes: "Church. Late C13 and early C14, restored C19. [...] Font is a single gadrooned baluster".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.486772, -0.815199
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 29′ 12.38″ N, 0° 48′ 54.71″ W
UTM: 30U 648346 5817425

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: English
Inscription Location: on the basin side
Inscription Text: "Marke Marshall, churchwarden, 1681:"
Inscription Source: [https://ukga.org/england/Northamptonshire/towns/StokeAlbany.html] [accessed 2 August 2019]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973