Stoke Fleming / Stoch
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Results: 4 records
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Halling, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2011 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2460552] [accessed 2 August 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1982 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1727514] [accessed 2 August 2019]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 13thC (?) basin on a modern replacement base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1982 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1727522] [accessed 2 August 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2011
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 February 2011 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2285377] [accessed 2 August 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10341STO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Church Rd, Stoke Fleming, Dartmouth TQ6 0PY, UK -- Tel.: +44 1803 770868
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A379, 5 km SW of Dartmouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of Chillington
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [altered], Early English [altered]
There is an entry for Stoke [Fleming] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SX8648/stoke-fleming/] [accessed 2 August 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lysons (1806-1822) list here a baptismal font "among many of circular form and an early age, enriched with various carved mouldings, wreaths, scrolls, or foliage". Noted in Stabb (1908): "old Norman font of red sandstone." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SX8620148311] notes: "Parish church. Probably C13, remodelled and enlarged in circa early C14, altered in C15 and restored in 1871-2 [...] Norman font of pink sandstone with plain round bowl with roll moulding below and circular stem with a moulded base, below which there is a late base with spired corners set on a late C19 Devon limestone plinth; the lead lining has marks for the hinge and bolt." The flat wooden font cover appears modern, perhaps a replica of an old model.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.32411,
-3.5998
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 19′ 26.8″ N,
3° 35′ 59.28″ W
UTM: 30U 457304 5574840
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, sandstone (red)
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822
Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916
