Fifehead Neville / Fifehide Neville / Fife Neville / Fifhide
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints Church, Fifehead Neville. The church has its origins in the 14th century with major restoration taking place in 1873."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2007
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 11 February 2007 by Maigheach-gheal [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/336392] [accessed 3 June 2024]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints Church, Fifehead Neville - Font. 14th Century font made from Purbeck stone with a greensand base."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 11 February 2007 by Maigheach-gheal [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/336402] [accessed 3 June 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints, Fifehead Neville- font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 22 May 2020 by Basher Eyre [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1883049] [accessed 3 June 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06672FIF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Fifehead Neville, Sturminster Newton DT10 2AL, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1258 817476
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located S of road A3030, E of the B3143, about 25 km NNE of Dorchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Pimperne [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Fifehead [Neville] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST7610/fifehead-neville/] [accessed 3 June 2024]; it mentions neither priest not church in it. Listed in the revised Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874) as Early English. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period in "Fifehide Neville" [NB: the current name of the village is Fifehead Neville]. Listed in Long (1923) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST7679911001] notes: "Parish Church, south wall C14, north aisle and arcade c 1500, remodelling and south porch 1736, roofs and restoration 1873 [...] C14 octagonal font on greensand base."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.89832, -2.3313
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 53′ 54″ N, 2° 19′ 53″ W
UTM: 30U 547025 5638731
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, N/S
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and lain, with small cross finial
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973
Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 76