Corfe Castle
Image copyright © Gerald Duke, 2008
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Results: 13 records
B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil (with oak leaf in each arm)
Scene Description: one on each panel of the octagonal basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Olivia Suttle, 2004
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Olivia Suttle, 2004
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 font and cover
Scene Description: with the cover raised
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerald Duke, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Olivia Suttle, 2004
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 font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Olivia Suttle, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph in Olivia Suttle & Chris Suttle [www.stone.uk.com/history]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: illustration [original source unknown] in Dru Drury (1949)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerald Duke, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerald Duke, 2008
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerald Duke, 2008
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerald Duke, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]
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view of font - plan, elevation, section and sketch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerald Duke, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Olivia Suttle, 2004
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 piscina
Scene Description: a piscina from the old church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: illustration [original source unknown] in Dru Drury (1949)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06678COR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Purbeck Marblers Guild?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Edward King and Martyr
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Edward the Confessor
Church Address: East St, Corfe Castle, Wareham BH20 5EQ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1929 480257
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
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 Notes:
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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.
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.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 566674 5610006
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.6381, -2.05713
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 38′ 17.16″ N, 2° 03′ 25.67″ W
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 System: centre hole in basin
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, p. 198
- 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; p. 58 [ref. to a 15thC piscina]
- Dru Drury, G., "The use of Purbeck in mediaeval times", 70, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1949, pp. 74-98; p. 75, 82 and pl. XVII
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1970, vol. 2, pt. 1: 53-54
- 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, vol. 1: 539-541
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 79
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939, p. 72
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 167