Burton Bradstock / Bridetone

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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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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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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 basin - interior

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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 church exterior

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of church interior - looking west

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: with the composite font in the foreground

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view of font

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view of font - plan, elevation, section and sketch

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view of font - west side

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06670BUR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church St, Burton Bradstock, Bridport DT6 4QY, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, N side
Century and Period: 12th century [base only] 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
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
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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.702807, -2.725479
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 42′ 10.11″ N, 2° 43′ 31.72″ W
UTM: 30U 519386 5616813

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1970
Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Westminster: J.B. Nichols, 1861-1873
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