Stockland Bristol / Stocheland / Stockland Gaunts

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: St Mary Magdalene's, the 19thC replacement church [the earlier Church of All Saints was demolished in 1885]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 November 2011 by John Lord [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2682842] [accessed 9 April 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13480STO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene [originally from the old church of All Saints]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Church Location: Stockland Bristol, Bridgwater TA5 2PZ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1278 652953
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located just NW of Otterhampton, 11 km NW of Bridgwater
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Cannington
Font Location in Church: Originally in All Saints' -- later moved to the new church dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church Notes: new church built 1865; orig. church dedicated to All Saints was demolished 1885
No entry found for Stockland Bristol in the Domesday survey. Wade & Wade (1929) note: "Its church has been entirely rebuilt (1865), but retains its Perp[endicular] font." Described in Pevsner (1958): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with frieze of pointed quatrefoils." The Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 7, 1999) informs: "The former church, dedicated to All Saints in 1316 [...] In 1865-6 Thomas Daniel, lay rector and patron, rebuilt the church [...] on the site of the old and dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene [...] Original fittings from the earlier church include the 15th-century font and fragments of the screen." The VCH entry notes that "St. Mark's hospital, Bristol, had acquired the advowson by 1259", but we have no iknformation on the font of that period here.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.186823, -3.088826
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 11′ 12.56″ N, 3° 5′ 19.78″ W
UTM: 30U 493792 5670604

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-04-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-04-09 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929