Langton Herring / Langetone
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Results: 11 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 8
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: on the panels of the basin
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view of basin - interior
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of church interior - looking northeast
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view of church interior - looking southwest
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view of font - plan, elevation, section and sketch
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover in context
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view of font cover - detail
Scene Description: angel inside the finial of the cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06681LAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Church Hill, Langton Herring, Weymouth DT3 4HU, UK -- Tel.: (01305) 873978
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B3157, on Chesil Beach, 10-12 km WNW of Weymouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Uggescombe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in W end, S aisle
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Gerald Duke, of www.martinstown.co.uk, and to Robin Adeney and The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk], for the photograph of this font
Church Notes: original church said to have been early-13thC
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Langton [Herring] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SY6182/langton-herring/] [accessed 2 December 2018] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874) notes: "There is an octagonal font of Perpendicular character, with quatrefoils on each face." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SY6143882462] notes: "Parish Church. C14 Nave and Chancel. West Tower added early C19. Church drastically restored in 1827 and 1858, when vestry and south aisle added. [...] Font, stone, octagonal bowl with a quatrefoiled panel in each face, moulded underside, stem with trefoil-headed panel in each face, moulded and stepped square base, C15." The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/langtonherring.htm] reports a font of the 15th century here. Described and illustrated in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk] [accessed 31 December 2005].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.64059, -2.5465
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 38′ 26.12″ N, 2° 32′ 47.4″ W
UTM: 30U 532067 5609956
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Rim Thickness: 7 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 52 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 66 cm*
Basin Depth: 21 cm*
Basin Total Height: 32 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Gerald Duke, 2005 [www.martinstown.co.uk]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat, octagonal, with a box-like finial containing a sculpted angel
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1970
Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973