Fordingbridge / Forde / Fordingeburg / Forthingebrigg
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 16
Scene Description: the carving is practically gone now from all the panels; a shape is discernible here, on the right panel; it looks almost like a cross but it is just what remains of the two pointed arches on it -- the generous lining is modern
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph tajen 6 January 2009 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1116443] [accessed 17 September 2018]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: EXT NE digital photograph tajen 6 January 2009 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1116433] [accessed 17 September 2018] Source caption: "Fordingbridge. The parish church dedicated to St Mary is mainly Early English but the tower is Perpendicular."
FONT TRISH digital photograph tajen 6 January 2009 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1116443] [accessed 17 September 2018] Source caption: "Church of St Mary the Virgin, Fordingbridge The octagonal font has a Purbeck marble bowl much damaged by exposure to the weather, with two trefoiled panels on each face. The stem is circular and the base octagonal; it probably dates from the early part of the 14th century."
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view of font
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2009
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06772FOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church St, Fordingbridge SP6 1BB, UK -- Tel.: +44 1425 653163
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the A338, just E of New Forest, 10-11 km N of Ringwood, 16 km S of Salisbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Fordingbridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Decorated
Church Notes: 12th-13thC church; restored 19thC
There is an entry for Fordingbridge [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU1414/fordingbridge/] [accessed 17 September 2018]; it mentions a church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Early English period here. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The church of Fordingbridge existed in 1086 [...] and evidently belonged to the lord of the manor until about 1256 [...] The church has been a large and important building from an early date, and in the 12th century had an aisleless nave of the same size as the present one [...] Of this church the west wall of the nave and part of the south wall of the chancel, with the jambs of a doorway in ironstone, yet remain, and a number of details found and now preserved at the rectory show that the date of the work was c. 1160–70. About 1220–40 the church was greatly enlarged and practically rebuilt [...] Later in the 13th century, c. 1270, the north chapel was enlarged [...] The octagonal font at the west end of the south aisle has a Purbeck marble bowl much damaged by exposure to the weather, with two trefoiled panels on each face. The stem is circular and the base octagonal; it probably dates from the early part of the 14th century." In Dru Drury (1949) as a 13th-century baptismal font made of Purbeck marble, the bowl panels "carved in shallow pointed double arcades." Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble; "bowl with trefoil headed panels on faces". [NB: we have no information on he font from the 11th-century church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.92078,
-1.79509
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 55′ 14.81″ N,
1° 47′ 42.32″ W
UTM: 30U 584691 5641707
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone [Purbeck marble]
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lining [modern]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-08-04 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Dru Drury, G., "The use of Purbeck in mediaeval times", 70, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1949, pp. 74-98; r["References"]
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
