Stone nr. Stafford
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Scene Description: "Little remains of the priory buildings. Part of a sub-vault of the western range is incorporated in the cellars of the house called The Priory." [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Charles Gillow, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2008 by Charles Gillow [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rib_vaulted_Crypt,_part_of_the_original_priory_over_which_the_house_is_built.jpg] [accessed 10 July 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22230STO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Wulfad [later Augustinian Priory Church of St. Mary and St. Wulfad] [disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Wulfad
Church Location: [cf. GeoDirections]
Country Name: England
Location: Staffordshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: The site of the original priory is said to be in The Priory House, on Lichfield St, opposite the Community Centre -- the mid-18thC church is located on Church St, Stone ST15 8AA.
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Lichfield]
Historical Region: Hundred of Pirehill
Date: ca. 670? / ca. 1135?
Century and Period: 7th - 8th century / 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
Church Notes: original church here ca. 670; destroyed by Danes 9thC; replaced ca. 1135 by Augustinian Priory; collapsed 1749; new church of St Michael built 1758 re-using some materials from the earlier priory church here
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No individual entry for this Stone found in the Domesday survey; an entry for nearby Walton [variant spelling], also in the Hundred of Prehill, does mention a priest but not a church in it, though there must have been one there. The entry for this priory in the Victoria County History (Stafford, vol. 3, 1970) notes: "The priory of Stone was founded in an existing church dedicated to St. Wulfad. [...] The first mention of a daughter-house of Kenilworth at Stone [...] is in a charter of 1138-47 by which Robert de Stafford II granted 'to the church of Stone and the canons serving God there' considerable spiritual and temporal property [...] The house was evidently suppressed in the spring of this year [1537] [...] Little remains of the priory buildings. Part of a sub-vault of the western range is incorporated in the cellars of the house called The Priory." The present parish church of Stone is listed in Historic England [Listing NGR: SJ9046033814]: "Anglican church. 1758; chancel 1887. [...] C18 baluster font with gadrooned bowl."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.901, -2.144
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 54′ 3.6″ N, 2° 8′ 38.4″ W
UTM: 30U 557577 5861601