Broadwey / Broadway
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B01: design element - patterns - fluted
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Image Source: 1773 ink-on-paper drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library Online Gallery [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/b/largeimage84788.html] [accessed 6 December 2011]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Day, 2000
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Michael Day [http://people.bath.ac.uk/lismd/dorset/churches/broadwey.html] [accessed 6 December 2011]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © British Library Board
Image Source: 1773 ink-on-paper drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library Online Gallery [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/b/largeimage84788.html] [accessed 6 December 2011]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11287BRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Dorchester Road, 100 yards South of the, Littlemoor Road traffic lights., Broadwey, Dorset, DT3 5DN
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 5 km N of Weymouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
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There is a 1773 pencil-on-paper drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) of this font in the British Library collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 15537, Item number: f.120]. Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Listed in Long (1923) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. In Mee (1939): "Norman font with a graceful fluted bowl." In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Low bowl with fluting; C12." [NB: the illustration by Grimm shows a plain broad stem, but there may have been originally four outer colonnettes as well; replacements for the latter appear to have been re-attached since Grimm's time; unfortunately we have not been able to get photographic evidence of the present state of the font yet].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
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. 75
Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972