King's Stanley / Stantone

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the main/north nave

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view of font - detail

Scene Description: on the modern font

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13907KIN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: Brockley Rd, King's Stanley, Stonehouse GL10 3LH, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Gloucestershire, South West
Directions to Site: Located at the junction with Brockley Road, off the A419, just SE of Stonehouse, WSW of Stroud
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester
Historical Region: Hundred of Whitstone -- Hundred of Blachelaue [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared?]
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
There is an entry for [King's] Stanton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SO8103/kings-stanley/] [accessed 14 February 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 10, 1972) notes: "The parish church at King's Stanley had evidently been built by the end of the 12th century […] The church once had a 12th-century font comprising a large bowl with central pedestal and angle shafts; it was replaced by a new one of similar design […] probably at the restoration in the 1870s." The new font is noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font, 1877, a square bowl of cream-coloured stone with inset ivory-coloured marble panels." [NB: the new font is covered in very un-Norman decoration -- we have no information on the missing original font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.734384, -2.276531
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 44′ 3.78″ N, 2° 16′ 35.51″ W
UTM: 30U 549960 5731744

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)?
Basin Exterior Shape: square?

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-10-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002