Colemore / Colemeare / Colemere / Colmer / Cormere

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

Scene Description: on the north and south sides of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2009 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1339194] [accessed 6 September 2018]

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design element - patterns - scalloped

Scene Description: on the west side

symbol - cross - saltire - in a quatrefoil - 3

Scene Description: on the east side

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 February 2009 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1183314] [accessed 6 September 2018]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2006 by ChurchCrawler [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/135628] [accessed 6 September 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font at the back

Image Source: illustration in Colemore Church [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~parishregisters/hampshire/colemore/cochurch.htm] [accessed 21 December 2008]

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view of church interior - plan

Scene Description: showing the location of the font in the west end of the nave, south side, just west of the entranceway

Image Source: illustration in Colemore Church [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~parishregisters/hampshire/colemore/cochurch.htm] [accessed 21 December 2008]

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view of font and cover - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 February 2009 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1183284] [accessed 6 September 2018]

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view of font and cover in context - northeast view

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06746COL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter ad vincula [redundant since 1972]

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Colemore GU34 3RX, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Hampshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A32, 8 km N of Petersfield, 10 km S of Alton, 25 km E of Winchester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester

Historical Region: Hundred of Barton Stacey

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner of the nave, W of the doorway

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman

Church Notes: there may have been a church here since the 10thC, although none is mentioned in the Domesday entry for Colemore; present church is early-12thC; redundant since 1973; in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust

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There is an entry for Colemore [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU7030/colemore/] [accessed 6 September 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. White (1878) writes: "The font is the ancient Norman one of Purbeck marble." Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period made of Purbeck marble. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The walls are of flint rubble with sandstone dressings, 2 ft. 6 in. thick, and belong for the most part to the first half of the 12th century, the principal structural changes [...] have taken place being the rebuilding of the chancel in the 19th century [...] The font, near the south door of the nave, is of a late 12th-century type, of Purbeck marble, with a square bowl arcaded on two sides, and having a doublescalloped pattern on the west side and an interlacing pattern on the east. It has its original base and round central shaft, but the four angle shafts are modern." Described and illustrated in a local brochure by the Churches Conservation Trust [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~parishregisters/hampshire/colemore/cochurch.htm] [accessed 21 December 2008]: "To the west of the door stands the 12th century square font, made of Purbeck marble. Two sides of the bowl are arcaded, one is scalloped and the fourth has an interlocking pattern. The font is supported on a central drum with columns at each corner provided in 1845." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl with panels on two faces, a double scalloped pattern on the third and an interlacing pattern on the fourth; the subsidiary shafts are modern" [source given: VCH, 4, 1911].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.0719, -0.9937

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 4′ 18.84″ N, 0° 59′ 37.32″ W

UTM: 30U 640558 5659735

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone [Purbeck marble]

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat; decorated; cross finial

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-12-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975

White, William, History, gazetteer and directory of the County of Hampshire including the Isle of Wight, and [...], Sheffield: William White, 1878