South Stoke nr. Wallingford / Stoch / Stoke Abbats

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Results: 4 records
view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church exterior - west view
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 09792STO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: The Street, South Stoke, Oxfordshire, RG8 0JS
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the Wallingford Rd., 4-5 km from North Stoke, 7 km SW of Wallingford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Langtree [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Dorchester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Early English? / Decorated?
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry fot [South] Stoke [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU6083/south-stoke/] [accessed 30 October 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. A font here is described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "Font seems Decorated". Described and illustrated in Keyser (1918): "The font is Early English with large plain octagonal bowl and stem with a chamfer stop to each face". The illustration shows the basin raised on a plain pedestal base, also octagonal, and covered with a plain flat wooden lid. [NB: Keyser mentions that this village was also known as "Stoke Abbats" (ibid. p. 3)]. Noted in the Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 7, 1962): "About 1190 [the church] was confirmed to Eynsham Abbey, along with two other churches on the abbey's demesne manors, by Bishop Hugh of Lincoln. [...] It had evidently long been in existence, for ab antiquo it was free from all episcopal dues (ab omni onere episcopali), [...] and may well have been granted with the manor to Eynsham by the Bishop of Lincoln in about 1094 [...] The plain octagonal font is medieval." Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Octagonal, C14".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.548121,
-1.137548
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 32′ 53.24″ N,
1° 8′ 15.17″ W
UTM: 30U 629137 5712425
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain, with metal handle
REFERENCES
"Church notes, chiefly in Berks, Wilts, and Oxford, with a few in Somerset and Gloucestershire", 44, Archaeological Journal, 1887, pp. 43-50; 185-193; 291-303; 397-402; r["References"]
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-02-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Keyser, Charles E., "Notes on the churches of South Stoke, North Stoke, Ipsden and Checkendon. Oxfordshire", New Series vol. XXIV, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1918, pp. [1]-32; r["References"]
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974