Affpuddle / Affapidele
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Affpuddle: Church of St Laurence (Dorset)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Day, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 22 June 2013 by Michael Day [https://www.flickr.com/photos/13706945@N00/9117024724/in/photostream/] [accessed 10 February 2023]
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view of font - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerald Duke, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph from Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk/WEBSITE/VILLAGE/FONT/affpuddle.htm]
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view of font - south side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerald Duke, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph from Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk/WEBSITE/VILLAGE/FONT/affpuddle.htm]
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view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerald Duke, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph from Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk/WEBSITE/VILLAGE/FONT/affpuddle.htm]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerald Duke, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph from Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk/WEBSITE/VILLAGE/FONT/affpuddle.htm]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Affpuddle: Church of St Laurence (Dorset)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Day, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 22 June 2013 by Michael Day [https://www.flickr.com/photos/13706945@N00/9114794497] [accessed 10 February 2023]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerald Duke, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph from Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk/WEBSITE/VILLAGE/FONT/affpuddle.htm]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06654AFF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Laurence
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the N aisle [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Notes: Affpuddle is described in Thomas Hardy: "It is an untameable Ishmaelitish thing, dark and sinister"
Church Address: Affpuddle, Dorchester DT2 7HH, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1929 471768
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A35, about 2 km ESE of Tolpuddle, between Puddletown (W) and Bere Regis (E), 15 km ENE of Dorchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Bere [Rgeis] [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font? / re-cut?
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Affpuddle [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SY8093/affpuddle/] [accessed 10 February 2023]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Noted in the Handbook for travellers… (1869): "The font is Norman." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907), in Long (1923), Mee (1939) and in Betjeman (1958) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. [NB: the entry in Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Norman, round, with tapering sides. Intersecting arches", refers obviously to the font from Turners Puddle, now in this church]. In Jenkins (2000), who describes it thus: "a battered Norman font, like a squashed truckle of cheese." [NB: the church itself dates to the 13th century, so the font is probably from an earlier church]. The font is described and illustrated in Gerald Duke's web page on Dorset fonts [www.martinstown.co.uk/WEBSITE/VILLAGE/FONT/affpuddle.htm]. Noted in Leach (1975) as a font with a re-cut basin made of Purbeck marble [gives source: Dr. G. Dru Drury]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SY8053493711] notes: "Parish Church. C13 origin, enlarged C15 and restored C19 [...] C13 font, now in north aisle."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 550995 5621458
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.742667, -2.277248
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 44′ 33.6″ N, 2° 16′ 38.09″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone [Purbeck marble?]
Number of Pieces: seven
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 7 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 43 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 57 cm*
Basin Depth: 21 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 27 cm*
Basin Total Height: 27 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 98 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Gerald Duke
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: square, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 146
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 197
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1970, vol. 2, pt. 1: 3-4
- Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing], p. 146
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p.69
- Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 75
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939, p. 17
- Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869, p. 205 / [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. 74 [refers to Turners Puddle's font]