Pimperne
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BBL01: design element - motifs - beaded-tape
![[19th-century recarving]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1060101048_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [19th-century recarving]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerald Duke, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]
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BBU01: design element - motifs - beaded-tape
Scene Description: [19th-century recarving]
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LB01: human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: at 90-degree angles on the 19th-century lower base
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the 19th-century base
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view of font - front side
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view of font and cover in context
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view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: showing the 19th-century restoration of the basin
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view of basin - interior
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design element - motifs - foliage - scroll
Scene Description: [19th-century recarving]
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view of church exterior - west tower
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - south door
Scene Description: the font and cover can be discerned beyond the door in Hutchins' engraving of ca. 1861
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Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk] -- originally from Hutchins (1861-1873, vol. 1: 294
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view of church interior - looking southwest
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view of church interior - looking northeast
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view of font cover
Scene Description: 19th-century stone font cover
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view of base - detail - head4
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view of base - detail - head3
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view of base - detail - head2
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view of base - detail - head1
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view of base - detail - motif5
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view of basin - detail - motif4
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view of basin - detail - motif3
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view of basin - detail - motif2
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view of basin - detail - motif1
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view of font - plan, elevation, section and sketch
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06646PIM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only] [re-cut in the 19th century], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S aisle, by the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A354, 4 km NE of Blandford Forum
Font Notes:
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Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports that the font at Pimperne St. Peter's "is very ancient". It is noted in Hutchins (1861-1873) as being "coeval with the doorway" [i.e., Norman to Early English]; the font cover is noted as modern, but "characteristic and handsome." The Handbook for travellers… (1869) reports a Norman font in this church. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as "a good example of the cup-shaped font", from the Norman period. In Long (1923) as a good example of cup-shaped font from the Norman period. Also as Norman in Mee (1939): "The beautiful font, with flowers and twining stems on its bowl and four heads round its base." In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Norman, of cauldron shape, with large leaves in chains of large scrolls. Delightful stone font cover of pierced tracery, called 'modern' in 1861". A footnote in Newman & Pevsner (ibid.) adds: "It was, according to the Rev. B.A. Farquharson-Roberts, found close to the church about 150 years ago." [NB: much of the carving on the basin sides is the result of the 19th-century restoration]. Noted and illustrated in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistorichurchestrust.co.uk/pimperne.htm] with "an unusual replacement cover of unknown vintage, but of exceptional quality." The font and cover are also ilustrated in the Dorset OPC web site [www.dorset-opc.com]. A full description and set of illustrations can be found in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Rim Thickness: 6 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 48 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 60 cm*
Basin Depth: 28 cm*
Basin Total Height: 58 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [all measurements courtesy of Gerald Duke, 2004 [www.martinstown.co.uk]]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century?
Material: stone
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 197
- Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 201fn
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1970, vol. 4: 53-53
- Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset: a view of the principal towns, seats, antiquities, and other remarkable particulars in Dorset, 1774, vol. 1: 101
- Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Westminster: J.B. Nichols, 1861-1873, vol. 1: 293 and ill. on p. 294
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51214] [accessed 22 February 2007]
- Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 67, 75
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939, p. 175-176
- Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869, p. 201 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=hYEOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA369&lpg=PA369&dq=hemyock+church+font&source=bl&ots=wV68KRXFhH&sig=_-CnLgSLeYKjq8YBQMsxSQrjbvA&hl=en&ei=1IKRSeTLOojKNO3c_YkM&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA161,M1] [accessed 10 February 2009]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 316