Melbury Osmond / Melbury Osmund / Meleberie / Melesberie
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view of church exterior - west view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2010 by BishopHerman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Melbury_Osmund_Church.JPG] [accessed 3 January 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mr Eugene Birchall, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 January 2011 by Mr Eugene Birchall [accessed 3 January 2020]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3201232] [accessed 3 January 2020]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, [2002?]
Image Source: digital image in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/melburyosmond.htm]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 09355MEL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Osmond [ala Osmund's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Osmund [aka Osmer, Osmond, Osmund of Salisbury]
Church Location: Melbury Osmond, Dorchester DT2 0LZ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A37, 10-11 km S of Yeovil
Historical Region: Hundred of Yetminster
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
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
There are four entries for Melbury [Bubb and Osmund] [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/melbury-bubb-and-osmund/] [accessed 3 January 2020] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Long (1923) lists a baptismal font of the Norman period here. Mee (1939) writes: "last century a font thought to be Norman was found built into the wall and is now in its place again, looking almost too new to be true." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST5740207832] notes: "Parish Church. C15 west tower, much rebuilt, nave and chancel rebuilt [...] in 1745 [...] C19 refenestration in chancel. [...] Font, plain stone bowl set into tower responds, medieval." Illustrated in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust web site [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/melburyosmond.htm]: baptismal font oddly built into or attached to a wall and a pillar of the church; the basin is roughly hemispherical and is mounted on a plain cylindrical stem and an octagonal lower base; the whole is raised on a two step plinth.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.868209,
-2.60678
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 52′ 5.55″ N,
2° 36′ 24.41″ W
UTM: 30U 527670 5635243
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; r["References"]
Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939
