Beer Hackett / Beer Hacket / Bere Hacket

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 09340BEE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just W of the A352, about 6-7 km SE of Yeovil, about the same distance SW of Sherborne
Font Notes:
Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font has a plain octagonal bowl, on a square pier, and on the pier crosses in circles." Noted in Long (1923) as a "good specimen" of the octagonal font of the Perpendicular period, "with carving under the bowl." In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], plain, but against the underside nice leaf patterns." Described in the Beer Hackett-Thornhackett Parish Council web site as one of the few features of the original 15th-century church at Beer Hackett. [source: www.thornhackett-pc.gov.uk/hackett.htm]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973, vol. 4: 120
  • Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 71, 76
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 89