Michelmersh / Michelmares / Michelmarsh / Mitchelmarsh / Mitchelmersh / Muchelmarays / Muchelmaries / Mychelmers

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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

Scene Description: large ones on each side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

human figure - female - head

Scene Description: seen here on the right

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

human figure - head

Scene Description: totally replaced in the restoration; the original was probably female

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

human figure - male - head - bearded - long mustache

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

human figure - male - head - bearded - mustache

Scene Description: seen here on the left

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south porch

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south porch

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: church and churchyard

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2014 by Simon Burchell [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Mary's_Church,_Michelmersh_01.JPG] [accessed 20 May 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2014 by Simon Burchell [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Mary's_Church,_Michelmersh_07.JPG] [accessed 20 May 2017]

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view of font

Scene Description: ca. 1908?

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of font and cover

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 and cover

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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INFORMATION

FontID: 00307MIC

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of Our Lady

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Road, Michelmersh, Hampshire, SO51 0NS

Country Name: England

Location: Hampshire, South East

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle

Century and Period: 13th century [altered], Early English [altered]

Church Notes: original 12thC church documented 1284

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.037632, -1.507174

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 2′ 15.47″ N, 1° 30′ 25.82″ W

UTM: 30U 604664 5655070

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

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-. Accessed: 2011-01-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

White, William, History, gazetteer and directory of the County of Hampshire including the Isle of Wight, and [...], Sheffield: William White, 1878