Shaftesbury No. 1 / Sceptesberie
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2015 by Colin Smith
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 19 August 2015 by Colin Smith
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
![some appear to have [have had?] figures painted inside](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150914012_compressed.png)
Scene Description: some appear to have [have had?] figures painted inside
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2015 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 December 2014 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4346637] [accessed 14 September 2015]
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 August 2015 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 December 2014 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4346654] [accessed 14 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 December 2014 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4346678] [accessed 14 September 2015]
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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 16
Scene Description: in pairs on the sides of the octagonal pedestal base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 19 August 2015 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 13 September 2015)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06695SHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: B3081, Shaftesbury, Dorset SP7 8JJ
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B3081, 19 km N of Blandford Forum
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Sixpenny [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Shaftesbury [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST8622/shaftesbury/] [accessed 14 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a curioulsy carved font" in this church. Noted with an engraving in Carter (1887). Cited in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874), from Hutchins' original entry: "The font is octagon, on an octagonal shaft, both adorned with niches." Hutchins (ibid.) makes reference to the engraving in Carter [NB: Hutchins shows an engraving of a suspiciously similar font to illustrate Holy Trinity's own -- is he using the wrong illustration? -- to be resolved]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Long (1923) writes: At Shaftesbury St. Peter the octagonal has Perpendicular tracery". In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with blank tracery on stem and bowl."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 556405 5650724
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.005321, -2.196062
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 0′ 19.16″ N, 2° 11′ 45.82″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
- Carter, John, The ancient architecture of Enland, including the orders during the British, Roman, Saxon, and Norman eras, and under the reigns of Henry III, and Edward III [...] with notes and copious indexes by John Britton, London: H.G. Bohn, 1887, pl. XLIV
- 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. 3: 46
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51265] [accessed 28 February 2007]
- Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 72, 76
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 364