Puddletown / Piddletown / Piddleton / Piretone / Pitretone
Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: photograph taken 30 May 1981 by Timothy Marlow
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerald Duke, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]
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view of font
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Image Source: engraving in Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874)
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: B&W photograph by Rev. E.V. Tanner in Long (1923)
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view of font
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Image Source: drawing in Cox & Harvey (1907: 197)
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design element - patterns - trellis
Scene Description: containing vine leaves
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Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 May 1981 by Timothy Marlow
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design element - motifs - leaf - vine
Scene Description: in a trellis, all around the basin sides
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Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 May 1981 by Timothy Marlow
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view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: showing the damage to the upper rim and sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerald Duke, 2008
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view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerald Duke, 2008
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view of church exterior - north view
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerald Duke, 2008
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view of church interior - south aisle - looking east
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view of church interior - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerald Duke, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]
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view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 May 1981 by Timothy Marlow
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view of font - plan, elevation, section and sketch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerald Duke, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06653PUD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the S aisle, by the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: The Square, Puddletown, Dorset, DT2 8SN
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A35, about 8 km NE of Dorchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Puddletown [Domesday]
Additional Comments: damaged font (the present font: damage to the upper rim at opposite sides, consistent with forceful removal of cover staples) -- disappeared fonts? (there were three churches here in 1086)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Puddletown [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SY7594/puddletown/] [accessed 16 February 2015], one of which Bolla the priest was lord and tenant-in-chief, mentions three churches and church lands in it. The font here is noted, with an engraving, in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1961-1874): "The font is circular, perhaps Norman. It is covered with trellis-work inclosing vine-leaves." Described and illustrated in Cox & Harvey (1907): "The font of Puddletown is highly singular and beautifully wrought; it is beaker-shaped, and carved throughout with vine-leaved trellis work." Holmes (1922) refers to this font as Norman, "curiously shaped [...], like nothing else but a giant tumbler". Noted as Norman and illustrated with the cover on in Long (1923). Mee (1939) writes: "The Norman font is one of the most unusual in England, a gem in the shape of a tumbler. Almost every inch of it is crammed with carving of foliage interlaced, and among the plain and massive Norman fonts that are left to us it stands out as a thing of beauty and a joy forever." The present font cover dates back to the renovation resulting from a meeting of the parishioners on August 10th 1634 [source: www.westgallerychurches.com/galleries.html]. Described in Betjeman (1958): "beaker-shaped font, probably 11th century". In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "A very fine Norman piece, with an all-over palmette motif. The font is tumbler-shaped. -- The font cover is plain Jacobean." Described and fully illustrated in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk].
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 information on, and photographs of this font and church; to Timothy Marlow for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 546293 5622025
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.748155, -2.343814
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 44′ 53.36″ N, 2° 20′ 37.73″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 7 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 46 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 60 cm*
Basin Depth: 26 cm*
Basin Total Height: 71 cm*
Height of Base: 22 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1634-1635 / Jacobean
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal pyramidal with panelled sides and ball finial
REFERENCES
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 149
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 197, 198
- Gittos, B., "The font at Puddleton, Dorset", 5, 5, Chronicle: The Journal of the Archaeological and Local History Society, [1993?]
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1970, vol. 3, pt. 2: 222-225
- 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: 620 and illustration
- Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 66, 67, 75 and pl. opp. p. 66
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939, p. 196
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 19, 350
- Stanier, Peter, Dorset's archaeology: archaeology in the landscape, 4000BC to AD1700, Tiverton: Dorset Books, 2004, p. 139