St. Lawrence No. 1 / St. Lawrence under Wath

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
view of church exterior - northwest view
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church interior - looking east
view of font
view of font and cover in context
INFORMATION
FontID: 10442LAW
Church/Chapel: New Church [originally from the Old Church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: 2 Barn Cl, Seven Sisters Rd, Ventnor PO38 1UZ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Isle of Wight, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A3055, W of Ventnor (dir. Niton)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Portsmouth
Historical Region: Hundred of East Medine -- formerly Hampshire
Font Location in Church: [originally from the Old Church; later moved to the New Church]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
No individual entry found for this St. Lawrence in the Domesday survey. The Antiquarian itinerary... (vol. 5, 1817) and other 19th-century sources note the church but there is no mention of a font or stoup. Described in Cox (1911) as a rather clumsy font of the 15th century: "This font was ejected into the churchyard by Lord Yarborough to make more room for seats and a small substitute supplied ; but when the new church was built in 1876, the old font was once more placed under shelter." An illustration of unknown source, though probably a 19th-century source, shows two possibly medieval objects from this church: a font and a stoup; the font is captioned "old font in new church", and it is a plain square basin with chamfared angles, graded moulding on the underbowl, and raised on square pedestal base with partially chamfered angles, and on a quadrangular plinth with kneeling stone; it may be Late Norman or Transitional at the earliest [NB: it is not known whether or not this is the object referred to in the source below as 'Anglo-Saxon']. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 5, 1912) entry for this parish notes: "The old church [...] is now disused except for burials. It was probably built early in the 13th century as a manorial chapel for the tenants here, but has been so altered from time to time as to be hardly recognizable as an ancient structure. [...] The new church of St. Lawrence was built in 1878 from designs by Sir Gilbert Scott"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. Ward Lock & Co's Illustrated Guide Book, 1948, [in www.ivectis.co.uk/iow/wlventnor.html], on the subject of the Old Church, informs that "its Saxon font is in the modern church designed by Sir Gilbert Scott and opened in 1878". The entry for this church in Historic England [https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1266331] [accessed 14 February 2020] notes: "C13 Gothic style [...] Chamfered square font on two steps".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.586389,
-1.241944
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 35′ 11″ N,
1° 14′ 31″ W
UTM: 30U 624452 5605307
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-09-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, Isle of Wight: its churches and religious houses, London: G. Allen & Sons, 1911