Dyrham No. 1 / Dirham

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design element - motifs - scallop - 8

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design element - motifs - stop - 8

Scene Description: at the bottom of the octagonal stem

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05242DYR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Upper Street, Dyrham, Hinton, South Gloucestershire SN14 8HW

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located about 8 km E of Bristol, W of the A46, S of the M4

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol

Historical Region: Hundred of Grimboldestou [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Dyrham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST7475/dyrham/] [accessed 29 May 2016] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Bond (1908) mentions a Norman baptismal font with a scalloped-capital type of basin here. Each of the four sides of the basin has two scallops; the stem is octagonal at the top changing to square at the lower base. Wooden cover with dove finial; modern. Verey & Brooks (1999-2002) note two fonts in this church; one, a "Norman font with a square bowl with two big scallops on each side; later octagonal stem."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.480828, -2.374067

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 28′ 50.98″ N, 2° 22′ 26.64″ W

UTM: 30U 543466 5703483

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002