Glanvilles Wootton / Wotton Glanville / Glanville's Wootton

Noted with an illustration in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font has an octagonal bowl of Purbeck marble, with two shallow pointed arches on each face, on an octagon base." The illustration in Hutchins (ibid.) shows the font with a Jacobean-type wooden cover. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Early English period. Noted in Long (1923) as a good example of "a considerable number of Early English fonts in this county [...] mostly of Purbeck marble, a fact which leads one to suppose that the majority were constructed in or near the Isle of Purbeck, and exported in considerable quantities to other parts of Dorset, and even much further afield. The type consists of an octagonal bowl, with shallow pointed arcading on the sides. The bowl is usually mounted on a thick central, and four or eight smaller detached angle shafts, standing on a low plain base." Mee (1939) notes "a 12th century font." In Dru Drury (1949) as a 13th-century baptismal font made of Purbeck marble, the bowl panels "carved in shallow pointed double arcades." Illustrated in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/pageghi.htm]. [NB: is this font a Victorian reconstruction? Did Cox & Harvey and Long see another font?]. In the latter source the octagonal basin is raised on a broad central shaft of similar (?) stone, and a base of matching design, but the coloured outer colonnettes are more in keeping with the Victorian designs or remodellings of fonts. Wooden cover with squashed ribs-around-a-pivot; looks modern. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble; "four subsidiary shafts" [NB: later photographs show eight outer colonnettes].