Stratford-sub-Castle
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: notice the the crude re-cutting that made the formerly-square basin octagonal; the pedestal base and the plinth are modern
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2007 by Trish Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/513082] [accessed 18 January 2012]
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2007 by Trish Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/512979] [accessed 18 January 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: organ and west gallery; the top of the font and its cover are just visible behind the right bank of benches, by the north window
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2007 by Trish Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/513072] [accessed 18 January 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: with the pulpit and the chancel screen
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2007 by Trish Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/513048] [accessed 18 January 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 17861STR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?) [basin only] [composite font], Transitional [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, athe W end of the nave, N side, beneath the gallery
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Address: Stratford Road, Stratford sub Castle, Wiltshire, SP1 3YP
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on Stratford Rd., between the A360 (W) and the A345 (E), N of the A36 and of Salisbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Underditch
Additional Comments: altered font: square basin re-cut into octagonal shape -- MUST USE -- have pics
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 6, 1962) notes of this church: "The antiquity of the building is unascertainable. It was 'consecrated' in 1326, [...] but since a chapel had existed in Stratford from 1228, [...] it is not clear what the act of consecration implied: a new chapel may have been built on the original site, a new site may have been found for an existing chapel and a building raised upon it, or there may have been a desecration followed by a reconsecration. The architectural evidence is too ambiguous to help to solve the problem. The presence in the building of a late 12th-century font suggests the existence of a church at this period; on the other hand the font may be an importation from elsewhere." The Parish web site [http://stratfordsubcastle.org.uk/StLawrenceThroughTime.htm] [accessed 18 January 2012] notes: "The Purbeck stone Font, now at the rear of the Nave (originally 4 sided but subsequently cut to an octagonal shape), is from the same period" [the late-12th century].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 582961 5660846
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.093104, -1.815317
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 5′ 35.17″ N, 1° 48′ 55.14″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal, re-cut from square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.