Winterbourne Abbas / Winterborne Abbas

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06667WIN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Date: ca. 1200?

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the centre of the nave, against the S wall

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin

Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located on the A325, 6 km W of Dorchester

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Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874) as a Norman font in this church. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907), Long (1923) and Mee (1939) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. In the RCHM (1970): round bowl of Ham Hill stone [...] of Purbeck marble, c. 1200. In Newman & Pevsner (1972). Illustrated in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk/WEBSITE/VILLAGE/FONT/abbas.htm]. Dated ca. 1200 also in the SDFHS web site "Spotlight on..." [www.sdfhs.org/Spotlight/]. The font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin with almost veritical sides and a rounded underbowl; the base starts with a narrowing of the underbowl and has a stem with a broad central shaft and four attached colonnettes at 90-degree angles; raised on a square lower base and an octagonal plinth. [We are grateful to Gerald Duke, of www.martinstown.co.uk, for the images of, and information on this font]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Gerald Duke, of www.martinstown.co.uk, for the images of, and information on this font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, Ham Hill stone

Number of Pieces: four

Font Shape: chalice-shaped, hemispheric, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage System: centre hole in basin

Drainage Notes: [the drain hole appears blocked now] -- no lining

Rim Thickness: 10 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 60 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm*

Basin Depth: 27 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 107 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [all measurements from Geral Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk/WEBSITE/VILLAGE/FONT/abbas.htm]]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: plain flat wooden cover with metal ornamentation

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: 382
Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973, vol. 2: 197
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. 302
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 489