Winterborne St. Martin / Winterbourne St. Martin / Wintreburne / Wintrebvrne / Martinstown
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: partial view
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Image Source: illustration in Hardy (1891)
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view of basin - interior - drain
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view of basin - interior
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 20 arches
Scene Description: five arches per side of the square basin
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view of font and cover in context
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view of church interior
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view of font - plan, elevation, section and sketch
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06669MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1125
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. Martin [in the manor of Winterborne St. Martin]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N aisle [formerly thought to have been the site of the chantry a/p G. Duke]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Address: The Rectory, Martinstown, Dorchester DT2 9JZ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1305 889992
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just WSW of Dorchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Dorchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Dorchester [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: e-mail sent to Geral Duke (webmaster) 12/3/2004) -- replied: copy and/or link to anything in his site -- he's placed a short description and reference to BSI in this font
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Martinstown [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SY6488/martinstown/] [accessed 14 February 2023]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it]. The 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1961-1874) notes: "The font is Norman, of Purbeck marble, with a square bowl and base; the former has a shallow arcade." Barnes (1891) writes: "The font, of Purbeck marble, is probably Saxon" [NB: Barnes is overly generous in assigning an undeserved Saxon pedigree to several of the Dorset fonts]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Mee (1939) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Long (1923) as a font belonging possibly to the pre-Conquest period. Dru Drury (1949) as a square basin of Purbeck marble from the 12th century. The RCHM (1970) dates the Purbeck marble basin font to the late 12th century and the oak cover to the late 15th century. In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Square, C12, of Purbeck marble, with five flat blank arches each side". . In The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/martinstown.htm], with date ca. 1125. Described and illustrated in Gerald Duke's 'The Ancient Feudal Manor and Lordship of Winterborne St. Martin (Dorsetshire)' (p. 3): "The Norman font, thought to date from about 1125, is of Purbeck marble with decoration of lead arcading" [source: www.martinstown.co.uk]. The font consists of a square basin with vertical sides decorated with a blind shallow arcade of round arches, raised on a columnar base of a central shaft and four slender colonnettes, all on a square lower base and/or plinth. The same source informs that the present location of the font, the north aisle is "thought to have been the site of the chantry". Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble; no details [source given: Dr. G. Dru Drury].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Gerald Duke, of www.martinstown.co.uk, for the information on, and images of this font and church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 535261 5616520
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.69943, -2.5007
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 41′ 57.95″ N, 2° 30′ 2.52″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Number of Pieces: eight?
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Diameter (inside rim): 60 cm*
Basin Depth: 30.5 cm
Height of Basin Side: 38 cm*
Basin Total Height: 38 cm*
Height of Base: 63 cm [calculated]
Font Height (less Plinth): 101 cm*
Square Base Dimensions: 75 x 75 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 75 x 75 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Gerald Duke
LID INFORMATION
Date: 15th century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Barnes, W. Miles, "A brief historical & descriptive sketch of the churches in the rural deanery of Dorchester (Dorchester portion)", XII, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1891, pp. [36]-70; p. 58 and pl. 3
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 197
- Dru Drury, G., "The use of Purbeck in mediaeval times", 70, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1949, pp. 74-98; p. 77
- 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: 391-393
- Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973, vol. 2: 578
- Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 66, 67, 75
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939, p. 308
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 483