East Stoke nr. Wareham No. 1

INFORMATION

FontID: 11301STO
Church/Chapel: [former Parish Church of St. Mary]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes & ChurchNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century [re-tooled], Medieval [altered]
Church Notes: The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/eaststoke.htm] notes: "This [...] building of 1828 [...] replaced a much earlier 13C structure, which had been badly sited lower down in the water meadows and was prone to damp." This old ruined church is illustrated by Michael Day [www.bath.ac.uk/~lismd/dorset/churches/east-stoke.html]; an early [13th-century?] still survives. The 19th-century church of St Mary was converted to dwellings [we do not know where the baptismal font is located now]
In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Hexagonal, C13. On seven supports, very much smoothed." [NB: this font must have been originally in the old church down the meadow, now in ruins cf. ChurchNotes below]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hexagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972