Sandford Orcas / Sanford

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09379SAN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NNW of Sherborne, just N of the border with Dorset
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
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
Phelps *1836) reports "an ancient font" in this church. Long (1923) describes it as a fluted round bowl and dates it to the Early English period. Mee (1939) writes: "The church has a 13th century font like an upturned Caterbury Bell". In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Norman or early C13. Tub-shaped with big flutes." Listed and illustrated in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust: "The round bowled font with continuous fluting is 13c." [www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/sandford_or...]. The font consists of a roughly cylindrical basin with rounded underbowl, the sides decorated with fluted/ribbed pattern, mounted on a cylindrical pedestal base, a lower base and plinth, both square and plain. A wooden font cover in late-Jacobean style with four vertical S motif around a pivot sits on the basin.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: Late-Jacobean style -- date unknown
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972
Phelps, William (Revd.), The History and Antiquities of Somersetshire; being a general and parochial survey [...] [vol. 1], London: Printed for the author , by J. B. Nichols and Son, 1836