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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 basin - interior
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view of church exterior - south porch - detail
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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 - southeast view
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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 interior - looking east
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view of church interior - looking east-southeast
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view of church interior - looking west
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view of font - east side
Scene Description: showing the irregular arches
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view of font - north side
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view of font - plan, elevation, section and sketch
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view of font - west side
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view of font and cover in context
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06647LOD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene [former Benedictine priory]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Church Location: Main St, Loders, Bridport DT6 3RZ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1308 425161
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
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]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side, by the entrance
Date: ca. 1150?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid) (?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Purbeck Marblers Guild?
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
Church Notes: 12thC priory church;
Font Notes:
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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].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.74602, -2.7224
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 44′ 45.67″ N, 2° 43′ 20.64″ W
UTM: 30U 519585 5621619
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
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
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
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
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
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
Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972