Michelmersh / Michelmares / Michelmarsh / Mitchelmarsh / Mitchelmersh / Muchelmarays / Muchelmaries / Mychelmers
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2482863] [accessed 20 May 2017]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Burchell, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2014 by Simon Burchell [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Mary's_Church,_Michelmersh_08.JPG] [accessed 20 May 2017]
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view of font
Scene Description: ca. 1908?
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
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human figure - head
Scene Description: totally replaced in the restoration; the original was probably female
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human figure - male - head - bearded - long mustache
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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis
Scene Description: large ones on each side of the basin
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human figure - male - head - bearded - mustache
Scene Description: seen here on the left
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human figure - female - head
Scene Description: seen here on the right
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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view of church exterior - south porch
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view of church exterior - west view
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view of church exterior - south porch
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: church and churchyard
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Burchell, 2014
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00307MIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-07-25
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [altered], Early English [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of Our Lady
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: original 12thC church documented 1284
Church Address: Church Road, Michelmersh, Hampshire, SO51 0NS
Site Location: Hampshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A3507, 5 km N of Romsey, 15 km W of Winchester, 18 km N of Southampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Buddlesgate
Additional Comments: altered font? (restored? how much of the carving is original?)
Font Notes:
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No entry for Michelmersh found in the Domesday Survey. White (1878) reports "an antique font" in this church. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as one of "a curious and beautiful class of cup fonts", who dates it 13th-century. Described in the Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908): "At the west end of the south aisle is the font of thirteenth-century date, with human heads and well-carved foliage on the bowl and a round moulded base." On-site notes: the font at Michelmersh has been much restored: the upper rim is mostly new and some of the ornamentation on the basin sides appears also new; the shape is similar to those at Bosbury and Shere, the square top of the basin tapers in becoming an underbowl right at the upper rim; there are human heads (masks?) at the corners of the basin, under the rim; each side is ornamented with two large fleur-de-lis motifs. The cylindrical upper base is plain and shaped like a column with base mouldings; the next volume is octagonal and the plinth is square. [NB: the original heads here remind one of some of the heads found in the Egypticus master and on some of the Romanesque fonts in Normandie]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 604664 5655070
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.037632, -1.507174
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 2′ 15.47″ N, 1° 30′ 25.82″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 12 cm* (28 at the corners)
Diameter (inside rim): 56 cm*
Basin Depth: 21 cm*
Basin Total Height: 40 cm*
Height of Base: 55 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 106 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 80 x 80 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat with metal decorations and ring handle; modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 209, 211, 217, 227 and ill. on p. 221
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 201
- White, William, History, gazetteer and directory of the County of Hampshire including the Isle of Wight, and [...], Sheffield: William White, 1878, p. 326