Puddletown / Piddletown / Piddleton / Piretone / Pitretone

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design element - motifs - leaf - vine

Scene Description: in a trellis, all around the basin sides

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 May 1981 by Timothy Marlow

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design element - patterns - trellis

Scene Description: containing vine leaves

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 May 1981 by Timothy Marlow

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view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: showing the damage to the upper rim and sides

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view of church exterior - north view

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of church interior - looking west

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view of church interior - south aisle - looking east

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view of font

Image Source: drawing in Cox & Harvey (1907: 197)

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Image Source: engraving in Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874)

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view of font and cover

Image Source: B&W photograph by Rev. E.V. Tanner in Long (1923)

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view of font and cover

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view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 May 1981 by Timothy Marlow

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06653PUD

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: The Square, Puddletown, Dorset, DT2 8SN

Country Name: England

Location: Dorset, South West

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]

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

Century and Period: 11th - 13th century, Medieval

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.748155, -2.343814

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 44′ 53.36″ N, 2° 20′ 37.73″ W

UTM: 30U 546293 5622025

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

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

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

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

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; r["References"]

Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972

Stanier, Peter, Dorset's archaeology: archaeology in the landscape, 4000BC to AD1700, Tiverton: Dorset Books, 2004