Stringston / Strenegestone / Strengestune / Stringstone

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design element - architectural - window or niche - trefoiled - 8

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 September 2006 by Tony Ethridge

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design element - motifs - floral - rose - 8

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 September 2006 by Tony Ethridge

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a quatrefoil - 8

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 September 2006 by Tony Ethridge

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 September 2006 by Tony Ethridge

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2014 by Derek Harper [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3959122] [accessed 9 April 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the baptismal font at the west end, south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2006 by Tony Ethridge

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view of font and cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 September 2006 by Tony Ethridge

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14665STR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: The Nativity of St. Mary [earlier dedication unknown] [cf. FontNotes]

Church Location: Stringston, Somerset TA5 1SX, UK -- Tel.: 01278 732873

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A39, 10-12 km WNW of Bridgwater

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Cannington

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, by the S door

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for the photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Stringston [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST1742/stringston/] [accessed 9 April 2018], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 6, 1992) notes: "A rector of Stringston was recorded in the time of Richard I[i.e., 1189-1199] [...] The small church, in 1851 and since c. 1980 named after St. Mary the Virgin but of unknown ancient dedication,[...] Remains of a late medieval building survive in the chancel arch, part of the chancel wall plate, the outer arch of the porch, a carved head in the vestry, and the font." Described in Pevsner (1958) as a font of the Perpendicular period. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST1764642402] mentions no font in it. The sides of the octagonal basin are decorated with rosettes inscribed in pointed quatrefoils; the underbowl chamfer has a large rose on aech side; the octagonal stem has mouldings at top and bottom and, on the sides, deeply-carved trefoiled windows or niches; splaying lower base, also octagonal. The wooden cover is flat and round, totally plain; modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.175556, -3.177778

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 10′ 32″ N, 3° 10′ 40″ W

UTM: 30U 487573 5669363

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-05-18 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958