Sturry No. 1 / Stour-gau / Esturai

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view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church exterior - northwest end

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church of St. Nicholas, Sturry. Approaching the 16th century timber-framed porch of the north door."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © pam fray, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2009 by pam fray [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1351175] [accessed 21 April 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
INFORMATION
FontID: 12074STU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: The Rectory, 2 The Hamels, Sturry, Canterbury CT2 0BL, UK -- Tel.: +44 1227 710320
Country Name: England
Location: Kent, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the A28-A291 crossroads, just N of Forwich, 3 km NE of Canterbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Sturry
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th - 17th century[basin only] -- 13th century [stem] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: original [wooden?] church ca. 690?
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for Sturry [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TR1760/sturry/] [accessed 21 April 2018]; it mentions a church in it. Newman (1976) notes: "Font. Thick C13 stem, but with a bowl that may be C15 or of the 1660s." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TR1760960110] notes: "The chancel and the walls of the nave are Norman, Tower in 3 stages with crenellated parapet, the lower stages C12 having clasping buttresses with banding [...] C13 font." The font is an strange-looking composite of a cylindrical body, or stem, and an odd polygonal shallow basin; it rests on a double lower base or plinth. Is the basin a recarved part? Was the stem and base originally part of a font? A photograph of this object can be seen at the St. Nicholas Church website [http://freespace.virgin.net/r.cornish] [NB: this same web site notes that the bulding of a kitchen (!) in 1997 required the move of the baptismal font from its original position "beside the westernmost pillar of the south aisle".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.2985,
1.1202
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 17′ 54.6″ N,
1° 7′ 12.72″ E
UTM: 31U 368948 5684698
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Newman, John, North East and East Kent, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976