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Image Source: digital image The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2005 [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04228POW
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located just N of Nettlecombe, about 22 km WNW of Dorchester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
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
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]

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
Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; r["References"]
Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939