Goathill

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B01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: about half-way down the basin side

Image Source: digital image The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2005 [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2005 [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 11133GOA

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Country Name: England

Location: Dorset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the A30, 5 km E of Sherborne

Historical Region: formerly Somersetshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in The W end, S side, by the entrance

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

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

Font Notes: Click to view

Long (1923) writes: "Goathill [...] has a plain tub-shaped font." In The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/goathill.htm]. The Historic Churches Preservation Trust mentions a "12th century font and plinth" in this church [source: 'Recent Grants' issue of the Grants Cttee. 13 September 2005 [www.historicchurches.org.uk]]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and round, with metal ornamentation/reinforcement

REFERENCES

Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 68, 75