Stoke Prior nr. Droitwich / Stochan / Stoche / Stocke / Stoka / Stoke

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B01: angel - holding censer

Scene Description: on the left panel; forming a scene with the next two panels

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 September 2009 by Tina Manthorpe [http://www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/with/4531416627/] [accessed 26 May 2010]

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B02: sacrament - baptism?

Scene Description: in the centre (north) panel, between two censing angels in the adjacent panels [cf. Font notes]

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B03: angel - holding censer

Scene Description: to the right of the baptism (?) panel; forming a scene with the two previous panels

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 September 2009 by Tina Manthorpe [http://www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/with/4531416627/] [accessed 26 May 2010]

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B04: angel - holding shield

Scene Description: one of four; the shield may have been charged but it is too worn for identification

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B05: angel - holding shield

Scene Description: one of four; the shield may have been charged but it is too worn for identification

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B06: angel - holding shield

Scene Description: one of four; the shield may have been charged but it is too worn for identification

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B07: angel - holding shield

Scene Description: one of four; the shield may have been charged but it is too worn for identification

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B08: blank

Scene Description: to the right of the angel-with-shield on the right panel; uncarved south side (may have been intended to go against a wall or a pillar

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design element - motifs - cresting or zigzag

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design element - motifs - flat moulding

Scene Description: with floral motifs on its eight sides

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design element - motifs - floral - Tudor rose - 24

Scene Description: three on each side of the octagonal underbowl chamfer

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design element - motifs - floral - in a square - 32

Scene Description: four on each side of the octagonal centre moulding on the stem

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design element - motifs - leaf - oak?

Scene Description: on the splaying lower base; they appear to be oak leaves

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2010 by Jeff Gogarty [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1965775] [accessed 1 October 2014]

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the font at the west end of the nave, close to the arcade that divides the nave from the north aisle

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09764STO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Fish House Lane, Stoke Prior, Worcestershire B60 4DN

Country Name: England

Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the B4091, 3 km S of Bromsgrove, NE of Droitwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester

Historical Region: Hundred of Came (in Domesday) -- Hundred of Oswaldslow

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, by the S entranceway

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Stoke [Prior] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO9467/stoke-prior/] [accessed 1 October 2014]; it reports a priest but mentions no church, though there probably was one there. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a very ancient and beautiful font" in the church of St. Michael. Noake (1848) writes: "Near the southern entrance is a handsome font, somewhat defaced, of about the 13th century." Miller (1890) reports "The font is octagonal of the 15th century". Described in Andrews (1912): "Stoke Prior has fine early octagonal font, four of the eight faces having angels bearing shields carved upon them, three of the faces forming a group of a central figure with an attendant on either side of him, while the eighth face is blank." The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) notes: "At the date of the Domesday Survey the Prior of Worcester had a priest on his manor of Stoke Prior. [...] A church there is mentioned in 1240 [...] The earliest church of which there are any remains dates from the first half of the 12th century, at which time it consisted of a chancel and nave with a north aisle [...] The octagonal font is of the 15th century. The sides of the bowl are panelled, and carved with two censing angels and four bearing shields. On the north the subject represented appears to be a baptism, in which a figure stands before a small font with angels in the top corners holding up his robe. The south face is quite blank, suggesting that the font originally stood against the wall. The under edge of the bowl is carved with Tudor roses, with a row of ornamental cresting above, and in the middle of the stem is a projecting band with carved flowers on its face." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SO9493267699] (1967) reports a "C15 octagonal font with an angel in low relief on each side". Brooks & Pevsner (2007) identify a baptismal scene as well as angels with shields or censers, crossed oak leaves, etc.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.306492, -2.076221

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 18′ 23.37″ N, 2° 4′ 34.4″ W

UTM: 30U 562983 5795530

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-06-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Andrews, Francis Baugh, Memorials of Old Worcestershire, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1912

Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831

Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890

Noake, John, The rambler in Worcestershire, or, Stray notes on churches and congregations, Worcester: Published and sold by all booksellers, 1848