Milborne Port No. 1 / Meleburne / Mileburne
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Scene Description: only a part of it remains after the basin of the font was 'modernised' by making it odtagonal [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 Februay 2009 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1155680] [accessed 18 April 2018]
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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 Februay 2009 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1155680] [accessed 18 April 2018]
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view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Milborne Port: Norman south doorway. At St John's church and dating from the eleventh or twelfth century".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Bodman, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2012 by Martin Bodman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3056992] [accessed 18 April 2018]
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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum
Scene Description: Source caption: "Milborne Port: tympanum in south doorway. In Ham stone. Featuring two Celtic-style animals; possibly dragons?"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Bodman, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2012 by Martin Bodman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/305700] [accessed 18 April 2018]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "The Church of St John the Evangelist, Milborne Port The church dates from the Anglo Saxon period to a great period of expansion from 1867 to 1869. The church is a Grade I listed building."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steal, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 Februaty 2009 by Trish Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1155699] [accessed 18 April 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east - chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Firth, 2013
Image Source: digital photohtaph taken 12 April 2013 by John Firth [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3421877] [accessed 18 April 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior, St John the Evangelist, Milborne Port. The nave was almost completely rebuilt between 1867 and 1869."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 Februay 2009 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1155786] [accessed 18 April 2018]
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view of church interior - west end - window
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Firth, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2013 by John Firth [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3421881] [accessed 18 April 2018]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the mutilated font -- Source caption: "St John the Evangelist, Milborne Port. The font is 12th century and is of Purbeck marble with a 17th century cover."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 Februay 2009 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1155680] [accessed 18 April 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09370MIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist
Church Location: Bathwell Lane, Milborne Port, Sherborne DT9 5AN, UK -- Tel.: (01963) 250248
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located onff the B3145 [Crackmore / London Rd], 5 km NE of Sherborne, in the Dorset-Somerset border area [NB: Milborne Port appears often as part of Dorset]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Horethorne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [re-cut], Norman [altered]
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Milborne [Port] [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST6718/milborne-port/] [accessed 18 April 2018], one of which, in the lordship King William and Reinbald of Cirencester in 1086, reports "1 church. 1.0 church lands" in it. Holmes (1922) mentions a noteworthy old font here. Wade & Wade (1929) report a number of "objects worthy of observation in the church", among which, "a fine old font". Described in Pevsner (1958): "Norman, octagonal, but was square originally, of the Purbeck type with five shallow blank arches." The Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 7, 1999) notes: "There was a church at Milborne Port by c. 950 […] In 1086 the church was valued at 30s. […] The 12th-century font was originally square, decorated with shallow blank arches, and was subsequently made octagonal. It has a 17th-century cover. "
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.9665, -2.461
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 57′ 59.4″ N, 2° 27′ 39.6″ W
UTM: 30U 537849 5646238
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted) [re-cut to octagonal]
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square [re-cut to octagonal]
Drainage Notes: lead0lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-09-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Holmes, Edric, Wanderings in Wessex: an Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter, London: Robert Scott Roxburghe House, [1922]
Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929