Marnhull / Marenelle
Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2002
Standing permission
Results: 3 records
B01:
design element - motifs - spur - 4
Scene Description: at the corners of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2002
Image Source: digital image The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2002 [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
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LB01:
design element - patterns - fluted
Scene Description: on the stem of the later base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2002
Image Source: digital image The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2002 [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2002
Image Source: digital image The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2002 [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 04782MAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Gregory
Church Patron Saints: St. Gregory the Great
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 10 km WSW of Shaftesbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [basin only] / 15th century [stem of base only], Medieval / composite
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
Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font is octagon, on octagon shaft of Purbeck marble, with two trefoil-headed niches in each." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. In Long (1923). Mee (1939) notes: "The bowl of the massive font was made from a wayside cross." In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. An enormous, uncouth square block with top spurs. Low Perp[endicular] stem, panelled." In The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/], where it is noted that the basin "was almost certainly made from the great stone of a wayside Cross. The references are all coy about giving it a date." Described by Hutton (1976) as a composite baptismal font "probably made of a standing/cross stone for a bowl, on a D[ecorated] Purbeck pillar from another font." The Church Plans Online/ICBS web site [www.churchplansonline.org] shows the church plan for St. Gregory's and notes the re-siting of the font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, marble (Purbeck) (base only)
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: low and round; appears modern
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973
Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972
