Ashmore

INFORMATION

FontID: 11283ASH
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located in Cranborne Chase, about 10 km SE of Shaftesbury, on the Wiltshire border
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. C12 cauldron-shaped bowl on an C18 baluster." The Dorset On-line Parish Clerk web site [www.dorset-opc.com] notes that "the font is of Bere stone".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, Bere stone [basin only?]
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972