West Chelborough / Celberge / W. Celberge / West Celberge
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Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: photograph taken 29 May 1981 by Timothy Marlow
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view of font - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3784699] [accessed 21 February 2015]
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view of font
Scene Description: note the measurements (Imperial)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874)
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view of font
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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)
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design element - motifs - saltire
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Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 29 May 1981 by Timothy Marlow
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design element - motifs - sawtooth
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Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 29 May 1981 by Timothy Marlow
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design element - motifs - diaper
Scene Description: the bottom row; now very damaged
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Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 29 May 1981 by Timothy Marlow
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design element - motifs - leaf - palm
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 29 May 1981 by Timothy Marlow
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design element - motifs - rope
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 29 May 1981 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 September 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3648947] [accessed 21 February 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03425CHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, near the S wall of the nave, by the door
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: White Lane, West Chelborough, Dorset DT2 0PY
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km NE of Beaminster, 15 km WNW of Dorchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury [formerly in the Diocese of Bristol]
Historical Region: Hundred of Tollerford [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for [East and West] Chelborough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/east-and-west-chelborough/] [accessed 21 February 2015], but neither mentions cleric or church in it. A font in this church is described and illustrated by Paley (1844), who dates it to the latter half of the 12th century: tub font of small dimensions [only 75 cm tall and less than 60 cm wide at the top]. Noted, with an engraving, in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1961-1874): The font is a very beautiful example of the 12th century." The basin sides has parallel bands of, from the top: palm leaves, rope motif, saltire pattern, saw-tooth, and a lower one with mixed motifs hardly distinguishable in the source. The upper rim was broken when the staples of the old cover were removed. "It is probably made of Ham Hill stone, but until cleared of the numerous coats of whitewash, cannot be known with certainty." Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a "handsomely ornamented late Norman circular font". Noted in Long (1923), Mee (1939) and Newman & Pevsner (1972) as Norman. The Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset (West, vol. 1, 1951) notes: "The font and the Kymer monument are noteworthy [...] Font [...] tapering cylindrical bowl with five bands of ornament, conventional leaves, cable, diaper, zig-zag and small dog-tooth, late 12th-century." The font is now [ca. 2002] covered with a crude modern lid made of wood and topped with a cross finial.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Timothy Marlow for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 524495 5632870
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.847016, -2.652062
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 50′ 49.26″ N, 2° 39′ 7.42″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, Ham Hill stone?
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 6.5 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 45 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 57.5 cm*
Basin Depth: 22.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 75 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Paley (1844: unpaged) [NB: a full set of Imperial measurements can be found in Hutchins' illustration in the Image area of this record]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 197
- Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973, vol. 2: 639 and illustration
- Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 66, 67, 75
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939, p. 277
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 11, 19fn et al.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 444