St. Lawrence No. 2 / St. Lawrence under Wath

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view of church exterior - southeast view

view of stoup

INFORMATION

FontID: 13199LAW
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence [old church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
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: In the old church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
No individual entry found for this St. Lawrence in the Domesday survey. Cox (1911) notes: "A detached holy-water stoup of 15th century date stands at the west end, near to the large rather clumsy font of the same period." 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 stoup appears to be monolithic, with three defined volumes: basin, stem and slightly splaying lower base, all plain and square, the angles chamfered on all three volumes; one side of the basin is badly damage, part of it broken off.

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: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Isle of Wight: its churches and religious houses, London: G. Allen & Sons, 1911