Little Stanmore / Stanmera / Whitchurch
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font in use
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 September 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2613892] [accessed 14 June 2019]
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view of church interior - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 September 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2613879] [accessed 14 June 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 September 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2613893] [accessed 14 June 2019]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Smillie, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2010 by Jim Smillie [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1819900] [accessed 14 June 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12885STA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Address: Whitchurch Ln, Little Stanmore, Edgware HA8 6QS, UK -- Tel.: +44 20 8952 0019
Site Location: Greater London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B461, 2-3 km W of Edgware [the church itself is located on the N side of Whitchurch Ln]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of London
Historical Region: Hundred of Gore -- formerly Middlesex
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the mid-12thC? also a 17thC font?) / recycled font
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for [Little] Stanmore [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ1891/little-stanmore/] [accessed 14 June 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Pevsner (1951) writes: "the font with the Wolstenholme crest, by N. Stone, c. 1632" from the old church [Nicholas Stone] [NB: this may refer to the font at Great Stanmore -- cf. Index entry]]. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Middlesex, vol. 5, 1976) notes: "The church of St. Lawrence at Little Stanmore was given by Roger de Rames (fl. 1130) to St. Bartholomew's priory [...] Nothing survives of the building recorded in 1272. The oldest part of the present fabric is the early-16th-century west tower [...] The oak box-pews are original [i,e,, of the 1714 re-building], as are the iron rings to which service books were chained, the wrought iron altar-rails, and the font."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 687715 5720978
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.6085, -0.289
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 36′ 30.6″ N, 0° 17′ 20.4″ W
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Middlesex, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1951, p. 145