Winterborne Zelston
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B01: symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: one on each side of the octagonal basin
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Image Source: engraving in Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874)
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LB02: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - Ogee arches - 16
Scene Description: a pair on each side of the octagonal stem
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874)
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06688WIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side, by the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the main Wimborne to Dorchester road
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font [...] is of good Perpendicular character; the octagonal bowl has a quatrefoil and shield in the centre of each face. The shaft is panelled." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Historic Churches Preservation Trust notes that "there is a beautifully carved octagonal" [source: 'Recent Grants' issue of the Grants Cttee. Meeting of 13 September 2005, www.historicchurches.org.uk]. Illustrated in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Robin Adeney and The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk], for the photograph of this font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 198
- Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973, vol. 1: 337