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B01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

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view of basin - interior

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of font

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view of font - plan, elevation, section and sketch

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06682EVE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Edmund
Church Patron Saints: St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia]
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located just W of Melbury Bubb, about 12 km S of Yeovil
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Gerald Duke, of www.martinstown.co.uk, for the information on, and photographs of this font]
Listed in Long (1923) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Dated Norman, probably of the 13th century in the web SDFHS site [sources: www.dorsetlife.co.uk and www.sdfhs.org]. Described and illustrated in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]. The font consists of a cylindrical basin with a hemispherical underbowl, the only ornament being a roll moulding around the middle of the basin; raised on a short cylindrical stem and a chamfered octagonal lower base. Conical cover with decorated arrises and panels. [We are grateful to Gerald Duke, of www.martinstown.co.uk, for the information on, and photographs of this font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone [basin] -- sandstone [base]
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 10 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 50 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm*
Basin Depth: 30 cm*
Basin Total Height: 46 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [all measurements courtesy of Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]]

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Westminster: J.B. Nichols, 1861-1873
Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; r["References"]
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972