South Stoneham / Eastleigh / Stanham / Stonham / Swaythling

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 16

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design element - motifs - floral

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design element - motifs - geometric

Scene Description: wedge-shaped? [cf. FontNotes]

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: NB: the old font is partially visible at the far [east] end of the nave, behind the left [north] bank of benches and near the left side of the chancel arch

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "The nave and chancel - St Mary's church, South Stoneham. The view of the nave with its considerable number of wall monuments, looking towards the chancel (the oldest part of the church) with its late C12 Early English pointed arch."

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: ""The font is of the standard type for early polished-limestone fonts, being of a square bowl supported by a wide centre shaft with four flanking columns. However, these supports at Swaythling are Victorian, highly polished Purbeck marble: only the bowl and base are original, the latter extremely worn. The whole thing is placed on a later plinth. The bowl has four flat-arched panels on each face, each containing a wedge-like shape with the point facing downwards."

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17639STO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of Our Lady [aka St. Mary's]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: St Mary's Church Cl, Southampton SO18 2ST, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Hampshire, South East

Directions to Site: There is no village of South Stoneham; it is part of Swaythling, a suburb of Southampton. The church of St. Mary, South Stoneham, lies to the S of Swaythling village, just beyond South Stoneham House.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester

Historical Region: Hundred of Mainsbridge

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the NE end of the nave, by the N side of the chancel arch

Date: ca. 1180?

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for [South] Stoneham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4315/south-stoneham/] [accessed 30 July 2018]; it reports "3 churches. 1.0 church lands" in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) reports a church in South Stoneham at the time of the Domesday survey (1086); "The font, at the north-east of the nave, is of Purbeck marble, of late twelfth-century date, with a square bowl having four round-headed arches on each face inclosing wedge-shaped objects in relief. The upper surface of the bowl has foliage in the angles, and the bowl is carried on a central and four outer shafts, the latter being modern, while the base stone is old." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU4255313582] reports "a late C12 Purbeck marble font having a square bowl with incised arcading to the sides, on later clustered shafting." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl with four and a half panels on each face; subsidiary shafts probably a restoration" [source given: The Revd. J.C. Richardson]. The entry for this church in the Hampshire Field Club & Archaeological Society [https://www.hantsfieldclub.org.uk/medieval-graffiti/completed/south-stoneham-st-mary.html] [accessed 20 February 2023] notes: "In the lead lining of the Purbeck font basin, are the clearly chiselled initials RH. This distinctive method of carving, with individual cuts made by a chisel or similar sharp tool, is known as “wriggle work” and is found on pewter and silver vessels of the late 17th/early 18th century, suggesting this is when RH made his (or her) mark." Font listed and illustrated in the CRSBI [https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=3012] [accessed 20 February 2023]: "The font is of the standard type for early polished-limestone fonts, being of a square bowl supported by a wide centre shaft with four flanking columns. However, these supports at Swaythling are Victorian, highly polished Purbeck marble: only the bowl and base are original, the latter extremely worn. The whole thing is placed on a later plinth. The bowl has four flat-arched panels on each face, each containing a wedge-like shape with the point facing downwards."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.93656, -1.3753

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 56′ 11.62″ N, 1° 22′ 31.08″ W

UTM: 30U 614157 5644027

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Font Height (less Plinth): 77 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 69 x 69 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: initials

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: wriggle work on the lead lining of the font

Inscription Text: "RH"

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat; modern?

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-09-01 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975