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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16 arches

Scene Description: south side of the font

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LB01: design element - architectural - column

Scene Description: south side of the font

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view of font - north side

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view of font - west side

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view of font - east side

Scene Description: showing the irregular arches

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view of basin - interior

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - looking west

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view of church interior - looking east-southeast

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of font and cover in context

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view of church interior - detail - Calvary

Scene Description: noted in Duke as the remains of a 15th-century Calvary found buried in the church

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view of church exterior - south porch - detail - Green man

Scene Description: notice the short-sleeved shirt of the larger figure

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view of church exterior - south porch - detail

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view of font - plan, elevation, section and sketch

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06647LOD

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Date: ca. 1150?

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid) (?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Purbeck Marblers Guild?

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene [former Benedictine priory]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side, by the entrance

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene

Church Notes: 12thC priory church;

Church Address: Main St, Loders, Bridport DT6 3RZ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1308 425161

Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A3066, about 5 km NE of Bridport

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Dorchester

Historical Region: Hundred of Goderthorn [in Domesday]

Additional Comments: recycled font: stem of the base may be a later addition

Font Notes: Click to view

There are six entries for Loders, [Up]loders and Loders [Lutton] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/loders-uploders-and-loders-lutton/] [accessed 13 February 2023], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874) notes: "The font has a square Norman bowl of Purbeck marble, with a sunk arcade of semi-circualr arches." The Handbood for travellers… (1869) reports a Norman font in this church. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as "a square Norman bowl of Purbeck marble". In Holmes (1922) as "a square Norman font". In Long (1923), as Norman, on five legs. In Mee (1939). Dru Drury (1949) as a square basin of Purbeck marble from the 12th century. In Betjeman (1958) dates to the early 13th century. In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Square, of Purbeck marble, each side with four of the standard flat arches." In The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/loders.htm]: "The bowl of the font is made from Purbeck marble of around 1150, although the stem is later." Described and fully illustrated in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk] who notes the attribution of this work to the "Purbeck Marblers Guild". Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl with four panels on each face; stone central stem with four attached shafts" [source given: RCHM (W), 1952].

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Gerald Duke, of www.martinstown.co.uk, and to Robin Adeney and The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk], for the photograph of this font

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 519585 5621619

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.74602, -2.7224

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 44′ 45.67″ N, 2° 43′ 20.64″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: square, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage System: centre hole in basin

Rim Thickness: 7 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 58 cm*

Basin Depth: 20 cm*

Basin Total Height: 27 cm*

Height of Base: 70 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 97 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 74 x 74 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: a square covering of the font with a round cover opening over the basin well

REFERENCES

Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 148
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 197
Dru Drury, G., "The use of Purbeck in mediaeval times", 70, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1949, pp. 74-98; p. 77
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1970, vol. 1: 137-139
Holmes, Edric, Wanderings in Wessex: an Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter, London: Robert Scott Roxburghe House, [1922]
Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973, vol. 2: 311
Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 64, 66, 67, 75
Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939, p. 129
Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869, p. 219 / [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. 255