West Stour

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09385STO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Street, West Stour SP8 5RL , UK
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the N side of the A30, 8 km W of Shaftesbury, 8 km S of Gillingham
Ecclesiastic Region: Dioocese of Salisbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner of the nave, by the W gallery
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century [re-cut], Gothic [altered]
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
No entry found for West Stour in the Domesday survey. The entry for this parish in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 4, North (London, 1972) notes: "Font: comprises hexagonal stone bowl, hollow-chamfered below, on large centre shaft and six small corner shafts, on chamfered hexagonal base; probably of 13th-century origin, recut." Octagonal mounted baptismal font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides and chamfered underbowl, raised on a base made up of central cylindrical shaft and eight slender colonnettes, one at each angle of the basin; the colonnettes rest on an octagonal lower base. The font is located in the southwest corner of the nave. A flat wooden cover, modern and with metal reinforcements, covers the basin.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.00468, -2.3077
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 0′ 16.85″ N, 2° 18′ 27.72″ W
UTM: 30U 548573 5650573

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]