Maiden Newton

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view of font - west side

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view of font - right side

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view of font - east side

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view of font and cover in context

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view of font and cover

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: showing damage due to forceful removal of cover staples

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view of basin - interior

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view of church exterior

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of church interior - looking southeast

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view of church interior

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view of font - plan, elevation, section and sketch

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 09349MAI

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Date: ca. 1250?

Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (mid?), Early English

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S aisle

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin

Church Notes: 12thC church; re-built ca 1400; restored 19thC

Church Address: 3 Church Rd, Maiden Newton, Dorchester DT2 0AA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1300 320422

Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off the A356, 14 km NW of Dorchester

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font has an octagonal bowl, supported upon a central circular column, surrounded by eight smaller columns." Listed in Long (1923) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Octagonal, plain, on nine supports". Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble. Noted and illustrated in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/maiden_newton.htm]. Described and illustrated in the Dorset Online Parish Clerk's web site: octagonal mounted baptismal font of ca. 1250 [http://dorset-opc.com/Maiden NewtonPhotos.htm], and in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]. The font consists of three volumes: a plain octagonal basin with vertical sides; a columnar base with a broad centre shaft and eight slender colonnettes at the angles of the octagon; an octagonal lower base with vertical sides, equally plain. Although the basin is slightly taller than the lower base, the font is mirror shaped through its middle, with the bevel of the lower basin side matching a similar trim on the upper edge of the lower base. A later wooden font cover, somewhat in the style of the popular Jacobean design with four ribs around a central pivot, has a cross finial. The font appears to be in good condition, other than the common damage due to the forceful removal of old cover staples at the upper rim.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Gerald Duke, of www.martinstown.co.uk, and to Robin Adeney and The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk], for the photograph of this font

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 530120 5625170

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.7775, -2.5728

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 46′ 39″ N, 2° 34′ 22.08″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite [basin] -- limestone [columns]

Number of Pieces: ten

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage System: centre hole in basin

Rim Thickness: 10 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 60 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm*

Basin Depth: 25 cm*

Basin Total Height: 41 cm*

Height of Base: 63 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 104 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1970, vol. 1: 150-152
Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973, vol. 2: 688
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 77
Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 76
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 265