Stoke-on-Tern / Stoche / Stoke on Tern / Stoke-upon-Tern

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 April 2016 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4903791] [accessed 1 August 2019]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 16456STO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Outside the church, in the churchyard
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Stoke on Tern, Market Drayton TF9 2EZ, UK -- Tel.: +44 630 661204
Site Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A442, 9 km SW of Market Drayton, 16 km NW of Newton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Historical Region: Hundred of North Bradford -- Hundred of Wrockwardine [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disused font? (a basin among the tombstones of the churchyard) -- disappeared font? (the font of the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Stoke [-on-Tern] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SJ6427/stoke-on-tern/] [accessed 1 August 2019]; it reports a priest and a church in it. Anderson (1863) notes that the church here "is alluded to in the Domesday notice of the manor". Newman & Pevsner (2006) note: "Font. Under the tower, octagonal with candlesnuffer cover." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SJ6381627979] notes: "Parish church. 1874-5, on an earlier site. [...] Octagonal stone font with 2 steps, chamfered base, stem with square fleurons, bowl with alternate carved traceried panels and circular traceried motifs, and tall wooden cover with cresting to base, traceried panels and large poppyhead finial." No date for the present font is given in any of the above sources. There is a listing of a "Former font approximately 14 metres to east of Church of Saint Peter" [Stoke-upon-Tern] with an illustration of the object in Historic England [Listing NGR: SJ6384427988]: "Font, now disused. Possibly C13. Red sandstone. Tapered circular shape. Moulded top. The old font was probably removed to the churchyard when the Church of Saint Peter (qv) was rebuilt in 1874-75." The web site of the United Benefice [...] [www.theunitedbenefice.com/stoke-on-tern] [accessed 1 August 2019] notes: "Externally there are some old tombstones and the basin of an old round font which may possibly date from the 13th Century".

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 531067 5855467
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.84805, -2.5387
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 50′ 52.98″ N, 2° 32′ 19.32″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

  • Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864, p. 153
  • Newman, John, Shropshire, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 606