Piscina and Stoup, St Laurence - Affpuddle, Dorset
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N 50° 44.551 W 002° 16.638
30U E 550991 N 5621442
Piscina and Holy Water Stoup in St Laurence's church, Affpuddle.
Waymark Code: WMNPV5
Location: Southern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/15/2015
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The piscina in the chancel has a lancet-shaped moulded head and chamfered shelf, with the sinking filled, mid 13th-century.
The stoup in the nave, west of the south door, has a pointed and chamfered head and projecting rectangular bowl, mediaeval.
"Church of St Laurence, Affpuddle. The earliest datable parts of the church, about 1230 AD are the East Window, the smaller chancel pointed window and the trefoil arch of the south door. The chancel arch is early English, the North arcade about 1460."
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