Folke

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09342FOL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Folke, Sherborne DT9 5HP, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A3030, about 6 km SE of Sherborne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1628
Century and Period: 17th century(early),
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Robin Adeney and The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk], for the photograph of this font
In Long (1923): "The font at Folke has an octagonal bowl, which is unusual in classical work. It probably dates from the rebuilding of the church in 1628, and, like the fabric, retains some of the Gothic spirit." Newman & Pevsner (1972) write: "Font. Twisted stem; octagonal bowl, fluted. -- Font cover. Inturned volutes, decorated." Reported as a goblet-shaped baptismal font and a font cover, both from 1628, the date of the church itself [www.churchcrawler.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk -and- www.westgallerychurches.com/Dorset]. The font consists of a basin with an octagonal shape at the upper sides that become rounded at the underbowl and are decorated with stylised ribbed above and foliated pattern below; the stem of the base is a torsade column with octagonal top and base, and the lower base is octagonal. The wooden cover is of the four-S-shaped-ribs-around-a-centre-pivot type, the platform octagonal and decorated with small knows all around, one per side.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.91748, -2.4853
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 55′ 2.93″ N, 2° 29′ 7.08″ W
UTM: 30U 536180 5640775

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1628
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; r["References"]
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972