Stowe nr. Knighton / Stow
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - west view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2017 by Tiger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5448820] [accessed 6 August 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Billinger, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 July 2008 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/869928] [accessed 6 August 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16457STO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Stowe, Knighton LD7 1ND . UK
Country Name: England
Location: Shropshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A488, 2-3 km NE of Knighton, S of Clun, at the Herefordshire and Powys border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Hereford
Historical Region: Hundred of Purslow
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Early English
Font Notes:
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No individual entry for this Stowe found in the Domesday survey. Anderson (1864) reports that the church of Stowe was valued in the 1291 taxation. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SO3100673697] notes: "Parish church. Probably mid-C13 with late C17 bellcote, restored in late C19, when chancel was rebuilt. [...] Majority of fittings and furnishings including benches, pulpit and octagonal font are mid-to late C19. [NB: we have no information on its medieval font]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.35705, -3.0141
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 21′ 25.38″ N, 3° 0′ 50.76″ W
UTM: 30U 499040 5800752
REFERENCES
Anderson, John Corbet, Shropshire, its early history and antiquities, comprising […], London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864