Stone nr. Kidderminster / Staines / Stanes

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Taken from the footpath leading to the A448, to the south-west of the church [...] The school is the white building on the right of the photograph."

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 April 2005 by Martin B [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1195] [accessed 22 September 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16653STO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Stone Hill, Stone, Worcestershire, DY10 4BE
Country Name: England
Location: Worcestershire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 3 km SE of Kidderminster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Worcester
Historical Region: Hundred of Cresslow / Hundred of Halfshire?
Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Medieval
There is an entry for this Stone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SO8575/stone/] [accessed 22 September 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Miller (1890) reports a church here "rebuilt 1832 [...] The font is of marble and very small", obviously a modern one, not having retained the one from the medieval church. The Victoria County History (Worcester, vol. 3, 1913) reports: "The chapel of Stone was dedicated in honour of the Virgin Mary by Godfrey Giffard, Bishop of Worcester, in 1269. [...] The whole building is modern, and was built in 1831, when the old church was destroyed", and the furnishings are modern: "The font is of 13th-century design, with a square bowl." The VCH entry (ibid.) further adds that the registers here start in 1601. Brooks & Pevsner (2007) note: "large square font carved by William Forsyth". [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.36838, -2.1997
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 22′ 6.17″ N, 2° 11′ 58.92″ W
UTM: 30U 554488 5802313

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-06-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Brooks, Alan, Worcestershire, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2007
Miller, George [Revd.], The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester, Birmingham: Hall & English, 1890