Lytchett Matravers / Lichet / Litchet Maltravers / Litchet Matravers / Lechiot Maltravers

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 16 arches

Scene Description: two per side of the octagonal stem

Image Source: digital photograph 6 July 2013 by Ydigresse [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Font,_Lytchett_Matravers_Church.jpg] [accessed 5 June 2024]

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil - motif inscribed - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes for details on the individual motifs]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary, Lychett Matravers"

Image Source: digital image of a 2 August 1998 photograph by John Salmon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3273744] [accessed 5 June 2024]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "The interior of St Mary's, Lytchett Matravers. The nave and northern aisle were rebuilt in 1500. Hatchment: Trenchard quartering de Burgh ('Lytchett Matravers', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 2, South east (London, 1970), pp. 154-157 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/dorset/vol2/pp154-157 [accessed 29 December 2018]." -- the font is partially visible at the back, by the notice board, on the right

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in the Gentleman's Magazine (March 1817: pl. II-3)

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration [original source unknown] in Dru Drury (1949)

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Purbeck Marble font, c.1500, in the church of St Mary, Lytchett Matravers."

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06673LIT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Colehill Rd, Lytchett Matravers, Poole BH16 6BS, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1929 459444

Country Name: England

Location: Dorset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (W) road A350, about 10 km NW of Poole

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury

Historical Region: Hundred of Cogdean [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW area of the nave

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Lytchett [Matravers] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SY9495/lytchett-matravers/] [accessed 4 June 2024]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Gough (1792) notes: "The font at Lechiot Maltravers [sic] in Dorset bears the devices of the Maltravers family, lords of the manor from the reign of Henry III" [i.e., 1216+]. The March 1817 issue of 'Gentleman's Magazine, in a letter dated February 4 [1817] addressed to 'Mr. Urban' [Sylvanus Urban, the journal editor] and signed 'N.R.S', describes and illustrates "an ancient octagonal Font in the Church of Litchet Maltravers, co. Dorset; on which, 1. a rose; 2. a fret; 3. a rudder; 4. a cinquefoil; 5. a fret; 6. a rudder; 7. a rose; 8. a cinquefoil. The Font has a large octangular wooden cover terminating in a point at top. [...]" The drawing shows a baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with quatrefoil windows at the centre of which appears a varied motif, as indicated in the description above; the underbowl appears chamfered and plain; the base is an octagonal pedestal decorated with a blind arcade of trefoil arches, two per panel; the lower base splays out and is octagonal and plain. The cover is not illustrated. Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874), with a description taken from the original in Gentleman's Magazine [cf. supra]. The font is described and illustrated in Dru Drury (1949) as a heraldic font of the 15th century made of Purbeck marble. Betjeman (1958) too, dates the font to the 15th century. In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with panelled stem and pointed, diagonally placed quatrefoils on the bowl." Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble [polygonal II type]; "bowl with cusped quatrefoils on each face (heraldic badges and floral bosses alternate in their centres) the stem, which is linked to the bowl by a moulded intermediary has a pair of cusped headed panels on each face."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.76507, -2.09224

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 45′ 54.25″ N, 2° 5′ 32.06″ W

UTM: 30U 564018 5624093

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone [Purbeck marble]

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: unknown [pre-1817]

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958

Dru Drury, G., "The use of Purbeck in mediaeval times", 70, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1949, pp. 74-98; r["References"]

Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; r["References"]

Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset: a view of the principal towns, seats, antiquities, and other remarkable particulars in Dorset, 1774

Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973

Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975

Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939

N.R.S., "Re ancient octagonal font at Litchet Maltravers, co. Dorset", LXXXVII-i, March 1817, The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer, 1817, pp. 209; r["References"]

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972