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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church exterior - southwest end

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view of church interior - looking east

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Scene Description: the re-cut font

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06763MOT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: Mottistone Village, Mottistone, Newport PO30 4ED, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Isle of Wight, South East

Directions to Site: Located off the B3399, in Brighstone Bay, 7-8 km ESE of Freshwater, 13 SW of Newport

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Portsmouth

Historical Region: Hundred of West Medine / Hundred of Bowcombe [in Domesday] -- formerly Hampshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century / 13th century [re-cut] [composite font?], Medieval [composite]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Mottistone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SZ4083/mottistone/] [accessed 19 February 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church here. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period here. Described in Cox (1911): "of late Norman date, square with angle shafts, but unhappily restored […] cubical Norman font with shafts at the angles of an unusual design. But this was spoilt in 1863, and its proportions made somewhat absurd by adding a new top course to it, on the faces of which a text has been cut in modern lettering. The font is 30 in. square, and is now 40 in. high, whilst the interior of the bowl has the awkward depth of 20 in.." The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 5, 1912) notes: "[the church] dates from the 12th century, though the last feature of this period, the west door, was removed in 1863", and does not mention any font. Described in Lloyd & Pevsner (2006): "Square with angle columns, Norman in style. It may in part be the original late C12."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.651667, -1.427222

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 39′ 6″ N, 1° 25′ 38″ W

UTM: 30U 611183 5612270

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Basin Depth: 50.8 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 101.6 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 76.2 x 76.2 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [re-cut measurements -- cf. FontNotes for measurements in inches in Cox (1911)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: English

Inscription Notes: Dating from the re-cutting of the font in 1863? The complete text is probably the Ephesians 4:5 quote commonly used in modern fonts: "One Lord, one faith, one baptism"

Inscription Location: on the re-cut sides of the basin

Inscription Text: "[...] / ONE FAITH / [...]"

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat but very thick, decorated with knotching; metal decoration and ring handle; probably Victorian, from the 1863 renovation

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-05-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

Cox, John Charles, Isle of Wight: its churches and religious houses, London: G. Allen & Sons, 1911

Lloyd, David W., The Isle of Wight, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006