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view of font - right side
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view of font - left side
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view of font - west side
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: note the damaged rim
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view of font in context
![The font in its present [2204] location, in the Lady Chapel, in the Church of St. Lawrence, in Affpuddle](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1051219001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: The font in its present [2204] location, in the Lady Chapel, in the Church of St. Lawrence, in Affpuddle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerald Duke, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Gerald Duke in www.martinstown.co.uk
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06663TUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity [redundant]
Font Location in Church: In the Lady Chapel of the Church of St. Lawrence, in Affpuddle [cf. FontNotes below]
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Bere Regis, 18 km ENE of Dorchester
Additional Comments: damaged font: typical damage likely caused by the forceful removal of old font cover staples
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Handbook for travellers… (1869): "The Ch[urch] has a fine Norm[an] font, with interlacing work". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907), in Long (1923) and in Mee (1939) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. In the RCHM (1970). The entry in Newman & Pevsner (1972) under Affpuddle reads: "Font. Norman, round, with tapering sides. Intersecting arches" -- it obviously refers to this font, now located in the church at Affpuddle. Described and illustrated in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]: the basin is round, bucket-shaped, and has significant damage to its upper rim, the kind of damage consistent with the forceful removal of the staples of the old cover. This same source informs that the church is redundant and that the font was moved to the Lady Chapel of the Church of St. Lawrence in nearby Affpuddle [with its own Norman font as well].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Gerald Duke, of www.martinstown.co.uk, for the information on and photographs of this font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 9 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 49 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 67 cm*
Basin Depth: 26 cm*
Basin Total Height: 33 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 88 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [all measurements courtsey of Geral Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- 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. 2: 298
- 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. 268
- 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