Stow Longa / Long Stow / Longestowe / Netherstow / Overstowe / Stou / Stowe
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view of church exterior - southeast portal - tympanum
Scene Description: As the CRSBI suggests, although it is now the priest's doorway, it must have been originally the main portal
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Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Thomas Graham Jackson's Byzantine and Romanesque architecture (Cambridge: CUP, 1913): 407 [www.flickr.com/photos/126377022@N07/14595824758] [accessed 15 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast portal - tympanum
Scene Description: As the CRSBI suggests, although it is now the priest's doorway, it must have been originally the main portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anichka, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 December 2007 by Anichka [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mermaid_stone_001.jpg] [accessed 15 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Trolove, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 March 2009 by Michael Trolove [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1190874] [accessed 15 April 2019]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Plain font has an octagonal bowl on parts of two 13c circular capitals, a short stem, and a moulded base. It was once fixed against the west face of the western column, which was cut to receive it."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © jmc4, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 October 2017 by jmc4 [www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/30604655548] [accessed 15 April 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10683STO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Botolph
Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Church Location: Stow Longa, Huntingdon PE28 0TW, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located about halfway between the B645 (Kimbolton) and the A14 (Spaldwick), WSW of Huntingdon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Leightonstone -- formerly Huntingdonshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, centre aisle, W end
Century and Period: 12th - 15th century, Medieval [composite]
No individual entry for Stow Longa found in the Domesday survey. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol. 3, 1936) notes: "The architectural evidence points to a church existing here possibly before the Conquest, and certainly in the 12th century. [...] The church is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey (1086), but the existence of a pre-Conquest slab with interlaced work seems to indicate an early church on the site, while numerous remains of 12th-century date point conclusively to a stone church at that period. The whole church was apparently rebuilt about the middle of the 13th century, the south arcade and south aisle being built last, c. 1280. [...] The font was once fixed against the west face of the western column, which was cut to receive it. [...] The made-up font has an octagonal bowl on parts of two 13th-century circular capitals, a short stem, and a moulded base." Pevsner (1968) notes: "Font. Octagonal, but the round support made up of two E.E. capitals." The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2019) notes: "The existence of a reset 12thc. doorway confirms that there was a stone church of that date, but there appears to have been a complete rebuilding in the 13thc".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.32734,
-0.3772
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 19′ 38.42″ N,
0° 22′ 37.92″ W
UTM: 30U 678725 5800686
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: four scroll ribs at 90-degree angles on a flat base holdin up a Latin cross; modern
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-04-15 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2019-04-15 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968
