Bishops Caundle / Caundle Bishop / Bishops Candel

Results: 2 records

B01: symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B02: design element - motifs - floral - rosette

unclear whether the roses are on the bowl or underbowl
Scene Description: unclear whether the roses are on the bowl or underbowl

INFORMATION

FontID: 11284CAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located just SE of Sherborne, in the N of the county, towards the border with Somerset
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, beneath the tower arch
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
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) [cf. FontNotes]
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal [cf. FontNotes]

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
Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972