Stogumber / Warverdinestoch

Standing permission

Results: 7 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

design element - architectural - arch-head

Image Source: digital photograph in David Ross and Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/somerset/churches/stogumber.htm] [accessed 2 April 2018]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil

Image Source: digital photograph in David Ross and Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/somerset/churches/stogumber.htm] [accessed 2 April 2018]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: notice the different shape of the right side of the lower base; it appears to have been designed to fit against a wall

Image Source: digital photograph in David Ross and Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/somerset/churches/stogumber.htm] [accessed 2 April 2018]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil

Scene Description: is it blank? charged?

Image Source: digital photograph in David Ross and Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/somerset/churches/stogumber.htm] [accessed 2 April 2018]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2010 by Jaggery [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1764594] [accessed 2 April 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 April 2004 by Christopher R Ware [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/414082] [accessed 2 April 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font and cover

Scene Description: notice the blank panel on the right side of the basin; it appears not to have been carved and, in combination with the odd shape of the lower base on the same side, suggests that the font was originally designed to fit against a wall [unless there was a carving on it that was later defaced]

Image Source: digital photograph in David Ross and Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/somerset/churches/stogumber.htm] [accessed 2 April 2018]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 09547STO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: High Street, Stogumber, Taunton TA4 3TA, UK -- Tel.: (01984) 656414

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A358, 21 km NW of Taunton, in West Somerset, between the Quantock and Brendon Hills

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Williton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [may have been agaisnt the wal at some point]

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross [http://www.britainexpress.com] for his photograph of this font

Church Notes: original Saxon minster (?) church mentiones in 1086; present church is 13thC+

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Stogumber [variant form of name] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST0937/stogumber/] [accessed 2 April 2018]; it reports a church in it. Pevsner (1958) writes: "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with quatrefoils." The wooden font cover is Victorian. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 5, 1985) notes: "The church of Stogumber, known in 1086 as the church of St. Mary of Warverdinestoch, had been supported by a large estate, suggesting that it had been a minster [...] The lower stages of the tower and the western bay of the south nave aisle are of the late 13th or early 14th century and, with the possible exception of the east end of the chancel, are all that survived extensive rebuilding and enlargement in the 15th century [...] The stone pulpit and font are contemporary with the rebuilding and extension." One of the basin sides is left rough, as if the font had originally been intended to fit against a wall; even the lower base on that side is flatter, and sculpted with the same idea in mind.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.1278, -3.2903

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 7′ 40.08″ N, 3° 17′ 25.08″ W

UTM: 30U 479686 5664077

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century? / Victorian

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-04-02 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.