Stourton / Stortone
Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2011
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Stourton: St Peter's Church. St Peter's Church is a Grade I Listed Building"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nigel Cox, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 12 May 2019 by Nigel Cox [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6154805] [accessed 28 July 2022]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Peter, Stourhead. Fourteenth century church with later additions."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sandy Gerrard, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 18 September 2020 by Sandy Gerrard [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6698036] [accessed 28 July 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "The Nave and Altar of St Peter's church Stourton. The church has a peal of 5 bells in the bell tower at the opposite end of the church."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Len Williams, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 12 May 2014 by Len Williams [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3976386] [accessed 28 July 2022]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2004
Image Source: John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Font, St Peter's Church. The cylindrical stone font dates from the 12th century." NB: the font is originally from Monkton Deverill and was brought here when that parish church became redundant in 1971]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 10 March 2011 by Maigheach-gheal [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2306104] [accessed 28 July 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10163STO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: High St, Stourton, Warminster BA12 6QD, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1747 840221
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the B3092, 15 km NW of Shaftesbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Mere [Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church at Stourton
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: basin similar to the one on the font at nearby Tytherington
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photograph of this font.
There is an entry for Stourton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST7734/stourton/] [accessed 28 July 2022]; it mentions neither priest not church in it. The Handbook of travellers… (1869) reported an old baptismal font that had been removed from the parish church of St. Peter to a place near a lake in the Pleasure Grounds, in the Paradise well, near the church of the Muses; it does not describe the font. The present font at St. Peter's is a medieval one, probably from the 13th or 14th century, consisting of a round tapering basin raised on a cylindrical stem and round lower base. The font is plain but for a roll moulding at the centre ring position; the lower base is moulded. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST7763833944] notes: "Anglican parish church. Early C14, C15, 1720s, early Cl9 and 1877 restoration [...] C12 cylindrical stone font from Monkton Deverill. The present font, originally from Monkton Deverill, was brought here when that parish church became redundant in 1971 -- cf. BSI entry for Monkton Deverill]. The modern octagonal cover may have been originally meant for a font of that shape.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.10449,
-2.3208
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 6′ 16.16″ N,
2° 19′ 14.88″ W
UTM: 30U 547552 5661664
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, plain and almost flat, with knob handle
REFERENCES
Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869