Alton Pancras / Alton St. Pancras / Altone
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design element - architectural - arch or window
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3185926] [accessed 17 September 2016]
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design element - architectural - arch or window - 16
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - with inscribed symbol
Scene Description: Tudor rose, fleur-de-lis, pomegranate, etc. [cf. Font notes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2010 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1987700] [accessed 17 September 2016]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rog Frost, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2003 by Rog Frost [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/88989] [accessed 17 September 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![the font is partially visible on the left [north] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1051129001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font is partially visible on the left [north] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2005
Image Source: digital image in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/alton_pancras.htm]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the font is partially visible on the right [north] side, opposite the south entrance](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160917028_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font is partially visible on the right [north] side, opposite the south entrance
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view of font and cover - northeast side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Font, St Pancras's Church. The font dates from the 15th century. [...] at the edge of its lead lining there are still the remains of its old hinge and lock."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2010 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1987700] [accessed 17 September 2016]
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view of font and cover - southeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3185926] [accessed 17 September 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11282ALT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Pancras
Church Patron Saints: St. Pancras of Rome [aka Pancrace, Pancratius]
Church Location: B3143, Alton Pancras, Dorset DT2 7RW, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B3143, 3 km ENE of Cerne Abbas, about 15 km N of Dorchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Cerne, Totcombe and Modbury [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, towards the W end of the nave, in the N bank of benches, opposite the S door
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
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:
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There is an entry for Alton [Pancras] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/] [accessed 17 September 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font in this church is reported in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font is late Perpendicular, an octagonal bowl, on a niched pedestal, with quatrefoils in which they are sculptured the rose, fleur-de-lis, pomegranate, and other Tudor badges." Noted in Long (1923) as a "good example of the quatrefoil type of bowl" of the enriched octagonal fonts of the Perpendicular period. In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with quatrefoils." Modern font cover of flat octagonal shape.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.820442, -2.429238
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 49′ 13.59″ N, 2° 25′ 45.26″ W
UTM: 30U 540204 5630013
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and handle
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; p. 72, 76
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972