Stretton Grandison / Stratune

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Results: 5 records

design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 6

Scene Description: one on each side of the hexagonal basin

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view of church exterior in context - south view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2010 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1801490] [accessed 20 July 2015]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2010 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1801459] [accessed 20 July 2015]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Herefordshire Past, 2015

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in Herefordshire Past [http://herefordshirepast.co.uk/churches/st-lawrence-church-stretton-grandison/] [accessed 20 July 2015]

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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Herefordshire Past, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph in Herefordshire Past [http://herefordshirepast.co.uk/churches/st-lawrence-church-stretton-grandison/] [accessed 20 July 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09708STR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Stretton Grandison, Herefordshire, HR8 2TW
Country Name: England
Location: Herefordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A417, 10 km NW of Ledbury, in the Lodon valley
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Radlow [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
There is an entry for Stretton [Grandison] [variant spalling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO6344/stretton-grandison/] [accessed 20 July 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is described in the inventory of Herefordshire (1931-1934, vol. II: 175): "A re-set doorway in the chancel and perhaps the N.E. angle of the chancel may date from the 12th century, but the church generally was re-built in the 14th century [...] Font: hexagonal bowl, each face with a quatrefoiled panel, plain stem and modern base, 14th-century."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.094014, -2.537844
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 5′ 38.45″ N, 2° 32′ 16.24″ W
UTM: 30U 531661 5771596

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: openwork pyramid with inner crockets; fleuron finial; dedication painted around the base

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1931-1934