Buckland Newton / Bochelande
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design element - motifs - floral - square flower - Ogee
Scene Description: with a small flower [rosette?] in the centre [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3126274] [accessed 3 June 2015]
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design element - motifs - floral and foliage
Scene Description: of several designs, including at least one square flower in Ogee style
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3126274] [accessed 3 June 2015]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3126274] [accessed 3 June 2015]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: by a pillar of the south arcade
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover are partially visible on the left side, by the fifth bench from the front
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3126241] [accessed 3 June 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11288BUC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Rood
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, by one of the pillars of the S arcade, towards the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Cross
Church Address: Buckland Newton, Dorset, DT2 7BX, UK
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located S of Sherborne
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Buckland [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Buckland [Newton] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST6905/buckland-newton/] [accessed 3 June 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor curch in it. During his visit to this church on 12 October 1825, Glynne (1923) noted: "The font is octagonal, having its sides ornamented with square flowers." Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874) with a citation from the original edition: "The font, which is large and handsome, of an octagonal form, and ornamented with foliage, stands directly opposite the door leading to the room over the porch". Noted in Long (1923) as a "good specimen" of the enriched octagonal font of the Perpendicular period, decorated with foliage. In Mee (1939) as "a font carved with flowers", of the 15th century. In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with big leaf motifs." The lower base, octagonal and chamfered, appears to be a modern replacement. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern, probably Victorian.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 539077 5632808
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.845652, -2.444951
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 50′ 44.35″ N, 2° 26′ 41.83″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Glynne, Stephen Richard, "Notes on some Dorset churches", 44, 86-104, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923
- Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973, vol. 3: 713
- Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 71, 72, 76
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939, p. 49
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 122