Staunton in the Vale / Stantun / Stantune / Staunton-in-the-Vale

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches

Source caption: "St.Mary's font. Circular, 12th century Norman bowl with intersecting arches on a later base".
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Mary's font. Circular, 12th century Norman bowl with intersecting arches on a later base".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4765360] [accessed 12 December 2018]
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view of church exterior - south view

Source caption: "St Mary's Church, Staunton in the Vale. View from the south (the church is not aligned east-west). This southern side of the church was the most rebuilt part during the 19th century restorations. The windows are in Decorated style and are thought to replicate the original tracery."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's Church, Staunton in the Vale. View from the south (the church is not aligned east-west). This southern side of the church was the most rebuilt part during the 19th century restorations. The windows are in Decorated style and are thought to replicate the original tracery."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan-Murray-Rust, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 April 2014 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3936054] [accessed 12 December 2018]
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view of church interior - looking west

the old font is partially visible at the west end of the north aisle
Scene Description: the old font is partially visible at the west end of the north aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2008 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/930151] [accessed 12 December 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - looking east

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 October 2014 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4765360] [accessed 12 December 2018]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 15506STA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval / composite
Cognate Fonts: the font at Screveton (Notts.)
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the N aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Staunton, Nottingham NG13 9PE, UK
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A1, 3 km S of Cotham, S of Newark-on-Trent
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Newark
Additional Comments: altered font / composite font
Font Notes:
There are two entries for Staunton [-in-the-Vale] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK8043/staunton-in-the-vale/] [accessed 12 December 2018] one of which reports a priest and a church in it. Staunton (1900) writes: "The bowl of the font is a circular Norman one, closely resembling that at Screveton, of which font an illustration was given in the first volume of our Transactions. The bowl of the Staunton font has the same interlacing semi-circular arch-work, and has been placed on a modern stem. The base is probably earlier than the stem, and later than the Norman bowl." Described in Cox (1912): "Norm[an] font has bowl 2 ft. 7 in. in diameter and 15 in. deep, ornamented with interlaced arcading; modern octagonal base; circular step on which it stands made up from a 15th cent. gravestone still bearing part of black-letter inscription." Guilford (1927) notes a Norman font in this church. Noted in Pevsner & Williamson (1979): "Norman, with intersecting arches on little columns."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 647538 5872372
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.9806, -0.8024
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 58′ 50.16″ N, 0° 48′ 8.64″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 197 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 20 October 2009]
  • Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 188
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 337
  • Staunton, George W., "Staunton and the Staunton Family", 4 (1900), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1900