Chideock / Chidiock / Cidihoc
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 16
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design element - motifs - floral - Tudor rose - 8
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 8
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11293CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of St. Giles, Chideock
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Notes: church was [formerly a chapel-of-ease of Whitechurch Canonicorum
Church Address: Main St, Chideock, Bridport DT6 6JW, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7297 483621
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A35, 6 km W of Bridport
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Whitchurch [Canonicorum] [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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There is a multiple-place entry that includes Chideock [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/chideock-and-north-chideock/] [accessed 21 June 2025]. Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font is a good example of this style [Perpendicular], having two quatrefoils on each face of a shallow octagonal bowl, supported by a panelled stem." Noted in Long (1923) as a "good specimen" of the octagonal font of the Perpendicular period, "the shaft enriched with panelling." In Mee (12939): "The beautiful panelled font is 500 years old". In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, a big flat bowl with quatrefoils." The shallow basin sides are decorated with pairs of quatrefoil-in-a-circle motifs; each side of the octagonal underbowl chamfer has a Tudor (?) rose; the panels of the octagonal stem have trefoil arches/windows. The wooden font cover is octagonal pyramidal with knob finial [17th century?].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Lynda Mudle-Small, of the Dorset-OPC for the photograph of this font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: [17th century?]
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973, vol. 2: 259
- Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 71
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939, p. 66
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 151