Bishops Caundle / Caundle Bishop / Bishops Candel

Results: 2 records

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11284CAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Bishops Caundle
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, beneath the tower arch
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Address: Bishop's Caundle, Sherborne DT9 5ND, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1935 873044
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A3030, just SE of Sherborne, in the N of the county, towards the border with Somerset
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Font Notes:
Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "tower-arch of Hamhill stone; under which the font of the same material now stands, with a hexagonal bowl, the facets of which are panelled with four-foiled circles containing alternately a blank shield and a rose, its shaft being panelled also with trefoiled heads." Noted in Long (1923) as a "good example of the quatrefoil type of bowl" of the enriched octagonal fonts of the Perpendicular period. Mee (1939) notes a font of the 15th century "carved with shields and roses." In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with quatrefoils."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973, vol. 4: 138
  • Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 72, 76
  • Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939, p. 29
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 95