Woodlands

INFORMATION

FontID: 10563WOO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Ascension [originally from Knowlton]
Church Patron Saints: The Ascension of Christ
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Knowlton is located 3 km S of Cranborne; the ruined church is in the Neolithic site -- Woodlands forms a parish with nearby Horton, 8 km W of Cranborne
Font Location in Church: Inside the 19th-century church at Woodlands
Century and Period: 12th century / 14th century, Medieval
Mee (1939) notes that Knowlton's "ancient font is now crowned by a richly traceried wooden canopy in the new church at Woodlands." Stanier (2004) mentions an early font, originally from the ruined church at Knowlton [Knowlton Rings], now in the parish church at Woodlands. Noted also in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/Iwerne_Courtney.htm]: "its font is now in the Woodlands church."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

LID INFORMATION

Date: unknown
Material: wood,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939
Stanier, Peter, Dorset's archaeology: archaeology in the landscape, 4000BC to AD1700, Tiverton: Dorset Books, 2004