Bloxworth / Blochesborde / Blocksworth
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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis
Scene Description: "on one side of the bowl is an imperfect fleur-de-lys, parts of the arms of Savage", according to Hutchings [cf. FontNotes]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the 13thC (?) basin
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 January 2011 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2240704] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Faherty, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2017 by Mike Faherty [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5372005] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 January 2011 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2240975] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 September 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3169625] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3169625] [accessed 8 October 2018]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11286BLO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Church Lane, Bloxworth, Wareham BH20 7EG, UK -- Tel.: 01929459244
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A35, 8 km W of Poole, 10 km NW of Wareham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Combsditch
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the tower
Century and Period: 13th century [base only] -- 17th century[basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Bloxworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SY8894/bloxworth/] [accessed 8 October 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874) writes: "The font is of the seventeenth century; on one side of the bowl is an imperfect fleur-de-lys, parts of the arms of Savage." The entry for Bloxworth in the Inventory of Historical Monuments in Dorset (vol. 2, 1970) notes: "early 17th-century. Font: in W. tower, with circular limestone bowl carved with fleur-de-lys and with moulded lower edge, on circular stem with moulded base on chamfered sub-base, 13th-century, on modern octagonal platform." Newman & Pevsner (1972), however note: "Font. C13, of Purbeck marble, with just one fleur-de-lis." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SY8805794714] notes: "C12 origin, altered and enlarged in C14, C17 and late C19. [...] C13 font with circular bowl and stem."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.751892, -2.170477
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 45′ 6.81″ N, 2° 10′ 13.72″ W
UTM: 30U 558517 5622563
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble]
REFERENCES
Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Westminster: J.B. Nichols, 1861-1873
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972