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
Font ID: 11287BRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas, Broadwey
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: 681 Dorchester Rd, Weymouth DT3 5LW, United Kingdom
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B3159, W of the A353, 6 km N of Weymouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
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, vol. 2: 489
- 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, p. 43
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 115