Bridport No. 1 / Brideport
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2019 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover in context - east side
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 8
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2
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view of church exterior - west view
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view of church interior - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 September 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3673595] [accessed 6 January 2020]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2019 by Colin Smith
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06677BRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1400?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: 84 South St, Bridport DT6 3NW, UK -- Tel.: +44 1308 424747
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A35, on Lyme Bay, 18-20 km E of Lyme Regis, 24 km W of Dorchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of Whitchurch [Canonicorum]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are three entries, one of which is multiple-place (3 places), for Bridport [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SY4692/bridport/] [accessed 6 January 2020], one of which reports "3 churches. 4.0 church lands" in it. During his visit to this church on 13 October 1825, Glynne (1923) noted: "The font is octagonal and ornamented with panneling and quatrefoils." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Long (1923) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with quatrefoil bowl and panelled stem." In Image The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk] as a baptismal font dated 1400. [a holy-water stoup probably of the same period is listed in this Index as Bridport No. 2]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 517056 5619890
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.730556, -2.758333
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 43′ 50″ N, 2° 45′ 30″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 198
- Glynne, Stephen Richard, "Notes on some Dorset churches", 44, 86-104, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923
- Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 76
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 110