Burton Bradstock / Bridetone
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 19 January 2020)
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view of font - west side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2019 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover
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view of font
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design element - architectural - arch - multifoiled
Scene Description: two of them seen here to the right and left of the trefoiled pair -- all of them appear to have been re-tooled
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2019 by Colin Smith
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design element - architectural - arch - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: in pairs on four of the eight faces of the octagonal basin -- all of them appear to have been re-tooled
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view of basin - interior - detail
Scene Description: Noted in Gerald Duke: "Graffiti inside the bowl: 'IM 1796'"
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view of basin - interior
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2019 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: with the composite font in the foreground
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2019 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - looking west
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view of church interior - looking east
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: a thick moulding at the bottom of the stem
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design element - motifs - spur - 4
Scene Description: at 90-degree angles of the 12thC(?) lower base
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view of font - plan, elevation, section and sketch
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06670BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [base only] 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, N side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church St, Burton Bradstock, Bridport DT6 4QY, UK
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B3157, about 5 km SE of Bridport in the Bride Valley
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Goderthorn
Additional Comments: composite font? (C14 basin on C12 base?) / altered font? (the basin appears to have been re-tooled) -- disappeared font? (from the Domesday-time churches here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Burton [Bradstock] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SY4889/burton-bradstock/] [accessed 4 July 2019], one of which reports "3 churches. 4.0 church lands" in it. Hutchins (1861-1873) mentions a font here.. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Long (1923) writes: "the bowl has a rather unusual scheme of ornament, consisting of two trefoil-headed arches and a single cinquefoil head arch alternately." Mee (1939) suggests that "the font is perhaps older than the church." In the RCHM. In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Octagonal, Dec[orated], with flat blank arches." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SY4886489493] notes: "Parish Church. C14 nave, C15 crossing, transepts and central tower, C16 chancel, south aisle of 1833, rebuilt by E S Prior in 1897. C20 south-east vestry. [...] Font: octagonal bowl with cinquefoiled, or trefoil-headed panels, C14, cylindrical shaft with square moulded base and spur ornaments, late C12." Described and illustrated in "A Brief Guide to the History of St. Mary's Church, Burton Bradstock", in [www.burtonbradstock.org.uk]: "The octagonal bowl of the font belongs to the 14th century [...]. It is decorated with alternate single and double trefoil and cinquefoil sunken panels". Described and illustrated in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]. The underbowl chamfer is plain and also octagonal; the base, of an earlier date [cf. supra], consists of a plain cylindrical stem and a square lower base with spur motifs on the upper corners. Flat wooden cover, looks modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Gerald Duke, of www.martinstown.co.uk, to Robin Adeney and The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk],and to Colin Smith for their photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 519386 5616813
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.702807, -2.725479
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 42′ 10.11″ N, 2° 43′ 31.72″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 9 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 45 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 63 cm*
Basin Depth: 21-22 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 21 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 198
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1970, vol. 1: 57-59
- Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Westminster: J.B. Nichols, 1861-1873, vol. 2: 281
- Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 69, 76
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939, p. 50
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 124