Powerstock
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2005
Image Source: digital image The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2005 [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04228POW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: 12thC church
Church Address: King's Ln, Bridport DT6 3TF, United Kingdom
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just N of Nettlecombe, about 22 km WNW of Dorchester
Additional Comments: recycled font: reinstated font: 13th-century font which had been removed to the churchyard. It was reinstated in the church in 1972.
Font Notes:
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Long (1923) notes: "Traces of the staples or of the lead plugs in which the staples were embedded remain in [...] Powerstock", a font which he dates to the Early English period: "the bowl is square, with central and four engaged shafts [...], the angles of the bowl are champed." Described in Best (1992) as a 13th-century font which had been removed to the churchyard. It was reinstated in the church in 1972. Mee (1939) writes: "A 700-year-old font srands by the new one". In The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistorichurchestrust.co.uk/powerstock.htm]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Robin Adeney and The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk], for the photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 522131 5623538
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.763189, -2.686208
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 45′ 47.48″ N, 2° 41′ 10.35″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Best, Rosemary, Powerstock in Dorset, Powerstock: Powerstock PCC, 1992, p. 4
- Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 66, 69, 76
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939, p. 192