Preston nr. Weymouth / Prestetune / Preston with Sutton Poyntz
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16 arches
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font is partially visible on the north [left] side, by the north doorway
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font is partially visible on the north [right] side
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: notice the mis-matched base and the modern plinth
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06661PRE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Church Road, Weymouth, Dorset DT3 6BU
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A353, 2 km W of Osmington, 3 km ENE of Weymouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Cranborne [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, by the N doorway
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only] -- 15th century [base only], Medieval [composite]
There is an entry for this Preston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST9304/preston/] [accessed 19 February 2023]; despite its name "Prestetune" it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874) notes: "The font has a square Norman bowl of Purbeck marble, supported by a Perpendicular stem." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Holmes (1922) reports "the ancient font" as well as a holy-water stoup [no date] in this church [NB: this church is described in Holmes as "Perpendicular church with a Norman door" -- it is not clear whether or not the stoup belongs to either period, therefore not listed in this Index]. Listed in Long (1923) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Mee (1939) notes: "The bowl of the font is Norman." In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Purbeck, C13, square with tapering sides, and the familiar four blank arches each side." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble [no details] [source given: Dr. G. Dru Drury].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.644947,
-2.417453
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 38′ 41.81″ N,
2° 25′ 2.83″ W
UTM: 30U 541188 5610505
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone [Purbeck marble]
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
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
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
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
