Wyke Regis / Weymouth and Melcombe Regis

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design element - architectural - buttress - 8

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design element - motifs - floral

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design element - motifs - foliage

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: at the bottom of the stem

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view of basin - interior

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of font

Image Source: 1790 ink-wash-on-paper drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library Online Gallery [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/w/005add000015538u00065000.html] [accessed 13 November 2011]

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view of font - east side

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view of font - plan, elevation, section and sketch

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view of font - south side

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view of font - west side

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09365WYK

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: 1 Portland Rd, Wyke Regis, Weymouth DT4 9ES, UK -- Tel.: +44 1305 784649

Country Name: England

Location: Dorset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the B3156, in the municipality and SW of Weymouth town centre

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury

Font Location in Church: Inside the church; originally in the nave, but moved to the baptistery in 1970

Date: 1455

Century and Period: 15th century (mid), Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Gerald Duke, of www.martinstown.co.uk, for the information on, and photographs of this font and church.

Font Notes: Click to view

No individual entry found for Wyke Regis in the Domesday survey. There is 1790 ink-wash-on-paper drawing of this font by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 15538 - Item number: f.65]. Noted in Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Perp[endicular]. The stem curves out towards the top and carries a shallow bowl. The stem has vertical ribs and big leaves, the bowl fleurons." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SY6621177788] notes: "Anglican parish church. Rebuilt and rededicated 1455 [...] font is a tall flared stone octagon, with Art Nouveau decoration at the heads of panels and cover 'In loving memory of Oliver Warner and his 4 sons' (undated)." The source 'A History of Wyke Regis' (1998) informs: "The christening font is of the same date as the church (1455) and was originally sited in the nave, midway between the south and north doors. When used for christenings both church doors were left open so that "virtues" could enter from the south side and "vices" could be banished through the north - or Devil's - side of the Church. This was the side originally reserved for the burial of criminals and suicides. In 1970 the font was moved to a newly created baptistery by the south door." [source: A History of Wyke Regis, 1998 (D.F. Holligs?] -- available at http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~wykedh/c1to5.htm] [accessed 12 Januay 2006]. Fully illustrated in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk] [accessed 12 January 2006].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.5988, -2.47872

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 35′ 55.68″ N, 2° 28′ 43.39″ W

UTM: 30U 536892 5605341

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: four

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Rim Thickness: 13 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 47 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 73 cm*

Basin Depth: 14 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 108 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 117 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk] [accessed 12 January 2006]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: low graded dome with orb-and-cross finial

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1970

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972