Corfe Castle

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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil (with oak leaf in each arm)

Scene Description: one on each panel of the octagonal basin

Image Source: digital photograph in Olivia Suttle & Chris Suttle [www.stone.uk.com/history]

Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of 11/3/2004)

LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16 arches

Scene Description: a pair in each panel of the octagonal stem of the base

Image Source: digital photograph in Olivia Suttle & Chris Suttle [www.stone.uk.com/history]

Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of 11/3/2004)

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: looking east from the font

Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph in Olivia Suttle & Chris Suttle [www.stone.uk.com/history]

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view of font - plan, elevation, section and sketch

Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: illustration [original source unknown] in Dru Drury (1949)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph in Olivia Suttle & Chris Suttle [www.stone.uk.com/history]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: with the cover raised

Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]

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view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph in Olivia Suttle & Chris Suttle [www.stone.uk.com/history]

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view of piscina

Scene Description: a piscina from the old church

Image Source: illustration [original source unknown] in Dru Drury (1949)

Copyright Instructions: PD

INFORMATION

FontID: 06678COR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Edward King and Martyr

Church Patron Saints: St. Edward the Confessor

Church Location: East St, Corfe Castle, Wareham BH20 5EQ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1929 480257

Country Name: England

Location: Dorset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off road A351, on the "Isle of Purbeck", 7 km WNW of Swanage and about the same distance SE of Wareham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre aisle

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Purbeck Marblers Guild?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Olivia Suttle, and to Chris Suttle of www.stone.uk.com for the photographs of this font -- We are also grateful to Gerald Duke of www.martinstown.co.uk for the information on, and photographs of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Holmes (1922) dates it to the 15th century. Mee (1939) notes: "a 15th century font made from the marble of the hills around". Dru Drury (1949) notes this font as a product of the local Purbeck stone industry, "carved from the hard reddish bed of marble", and dates to the 15th century. In the RCHM (1970). In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Of black marble. Perp[endicular]. The stem panelled, the bowl with diagonally set pointed quatrefoils. -- In 1940-7 Martin Travers supplied the font cover". Font material is identified as Purbeck stone, "a polishable fossily limestone" (R. Legg, 1989), in Olivia Suttle's 'Suttle Natural Stone -- Grand Origins: Purbeck Stone, A History' [www.stone.uk.com/history]. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble [polygonal II type]; "bowl with cusped quatrefoil decoration on each face; the stem has a pair of cusped headed panels on each face;e is plain." Described and fully illustrated in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk] who notes the attribution of this work to the "Purbeck Marblers Guild: "The town of Corfe had a commune or school of marblers in the area of West Street who made baptismal fonts and other religious effigies for use throughout the county and country at large [...] The 'reddish' variety of this font is the most durable.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.6381, -2.05713

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 38′ 17.16″ N, 2° 03′ 25.67″ W

UTM: 30U 566674 5610006

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (Purbeck limestone) [reddish coloration]

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 9 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 58 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 76 cm*

Basin Depth: 20 cm*

Basin Total Height: 33 cm*

Height of Base: 71 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 104 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1947 made by Martin Trabers

Material: wood,

Apparatus: yes: counterweight-pulley system

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Dru Drury, G., "Some recent discoveries in the church of St. Edward King and Martyr, Corfe Castle", 69, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1948, pp. 54-64; r["References"]

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"]

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1970

Holmes, Edric, Wanderings in Wessex: an Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter, London: Robert Scott Roxburghe House, [1922]

Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Westminster: J.B. Nichols, 1861-1873

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972