Nether Cerne
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Results: 4 records
B01:
design element - patterns - ribbed
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B02:
design element - patterns - fluted
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view of font
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view of font in context
Scene Description: note the location of the font by the north door [aka the Devil's door]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09450CER
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [redundant since 1971]
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A352, about 9 km N of Dorchester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church; in the W end, N side, by the N [=Devil's] entrance
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
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
Church Notes: The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/nether_cerne.htm] notes that this church "was declared redundant in 1971 and came to the Redundant Churches Fund in 1973."
Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font has an ancient cup shaped bowl of Purbeck marble, on an octagonal base of later date." The Handbook for travellers… (1869) reports "a curious font" in this church. Listed in Long (1923) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Mee (1939) describes it as "the Norman font, shaped like a bellflower." In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Norman, of cauldron shape, fluted with alternatingly broad and narrow flutes." Described in The Churches Conservation Trust: unusual melon-shaped 12th century font bowl, probably from an earlier church here [source: www.visit-churches.co.uk]. In The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/nether_cerne.htm]: "The Purbeck stone font is Norman and has a fluted and ribbed cauldron bowl." [NB: only the bowl appears original, the base of a later date]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone [Purbeck marble]
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: cauldron
REFERENCES
Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973
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
Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972
