Chideock / Chidiock
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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 16
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Image Source: digital photograph in The Dorset-OPC
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BU01: design element - motifs - floral - Tudor rose - 8
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LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 8
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Image Source: digital photograph in The Dorset-OPC
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lynda Mudle-Small, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph in The Dorset-OPC
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11293CHI
Church/Chapel: Chapel of St. Giles [formerly a chapel-of-ease of Whitechurch Canonicorum]
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 6 km W of Bridport
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Lynda Mudle-Small, of the Dorset-OPC for the photograph of this font.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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?]. [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
Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; r["References"]
Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972