Goathill / Gatelme
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Results: 2 records
B01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: about half-way down the basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2005
Image Source: digital image The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2005 [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2005
Image Source: digital image The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2005 [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11133GOA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter, Goathill
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in The W end, S side, by the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Goathill, Sherborne DT9 5JD, United kingdom
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A30, 5 km E of Sherborne
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath and Wells
Historical Region: formerly Somersetshire -- Hundred of Horethorne [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: It belongs in the Diocese of Bath & Wells, "just in Dorset by a nanny-goat's whisker"
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Goathill [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST6717/goathill/] [accessed 20 June 2025]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. 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]]
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
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