South Stoke nr. Arundel / Stoches
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1814917] [accessed 1 May 2013]
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view of church exterior - west end
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2008 by Charlesdrakew [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:South_Stoke_Church_3.JPG] [accessed 25 September 2012]
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view of church exterior - southeast view - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2008 by Charlesdrakew [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:South_Stoke_Church_2.JPG] [accessed 25 September 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Dawes, 2010Valencia
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2010 by Martin Dawes [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1999219] [accessed 1 May 2013]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18193STO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard [cf. Church Notes]
Church Notes: the VCH entry [cf. FontNotes] notes that the dedication to St. Leonard "was assumed in the mid 19th cent. from the mention of a picture of St. Leonard in the ch. in 1539"
Church Address: South Stoke, West Sussex BN18 9PF
Site Location: West Sussex, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 4 km N of Arundel
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chichester
Historical Region: Hundred of Avisford -- Rape of Arundel -- Sussex
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one rom the ca.1086 church here)
Font Notes:
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Harrison (1920), who does not mention a font in this church, reports traces of 11th-century (Norman or pre-Conquest) work in the nave and tower in the mainly Early English period building. The Victoria County History (Sussex, vol. 5, pt. 1, 1997) notes: "There was a church in 1086. [...] The church of St. Leonard [...] Though much renewed in the mid 19th century, it retains its spacious late 11th or 12th-century proportions, with an original lancet and external rendering in the north wall, and plain north and south doorways, the former blocked." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this church. The Susses Parish Churches site [www.sussexparishchurches.org/content/view/558/33/] [accessed 25 September 2012] shows a view of the west end of the nave with the a font in it; it must be the replacement font introduced in the mid-19th century renovation of this church. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Allen, of Sussex Parish Churches [www.sussexparishchurches.org] for his photograph of the interior of this church
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 672854 5639380
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Harrison, Frederick, Notes on Sussex churches, Hove: Combridges, 1920, p. 194