Chilcombe / Ciltecome

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: inside the ribbed pattern

Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke, 2004 [www.martinstown.co.uk]

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design element - motifs - herringbone or rope

Scene Description: all around

Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke, 2004 [www.martinstown.co.uk]

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design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: each rib containing foliage motif

Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke, 2004 [www.martinstown.co.uk]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Noted in Duke: "View of the repaired edges and side"

Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke, 2004 [www.martinstown.co.uk]

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view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke, 2004 [www.martinstown.co.uk]

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view of church exterior - south porch

Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke, 2004 [www.martinstown.co.uk]

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view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke, 2004 [www.martinstown.co.uk]

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view of font - east side

Scene Description: notice that the foliage motifs on this side of the underbowl [east side] are very well defined

Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke, 2004 [www.martinstown.co.uk]

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view of font - plan, elevation, section and sketch

Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke, 2004 [www.martinstown.co.uk]

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view of font - west side

Scene Description: notice that the motifs on this side of the underbowl [west side] are much less defined than those on the east side

Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke, 2004 [www.martinstown.co.uk]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke, 2004 [www.martinstown.co.uk]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11294CHI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church

Church Location: Chilcombe, Bridport DT6 4PN, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Dorset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A35, just S of Askerswell, 6-7 km E of Bridport

Historical Region: Hundred of Uggescombe

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side

Century and Period: 12th century (late) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Gerald Duke, of www.martinstown.co.uk, and to Robin Adeney and The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk], for the photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Chilcombe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SY5291/chilcombe/] [accessed 3 July 2018], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Long (1923) writes: "The font at Chilcombe is a particularly rich example of 12th-century work with double cable moulding and foliage, and tongue-shaped ornament round the bottom of the bowl." In Mee (1939): "Norman font bowl decorated with cable moulding and a ring of arches." Noted in the RCHM (1952). In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Norman, with two modest ornamental bands." A full description, measurements and photographs of this font can be found in Gerald Duke's web site [www.martinstown.co.uk/WEBSITE/VILLAGE/FONT/chilcombefont.htm]. The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) notes: "Romanesque features include the font and some fragments inserted into the S doorway. The font is located in the SW corner of the nave. The bowl is circular, formed from a grey limestone. It has a chamfer around its rim, with, below, two rows of cable moulding arranged at an angle to form a herring-bone pattern. The lower part of the bowl is hemispherical, with a row of large raised stylized scallops or leaves, with two small receding roll-mouldings underneath. The chamfered rim has wide vertical toothed-chiselled tooling, the tooling on the rest of the bowl is smaller and more irregular. the rim shows sings of repairs on the W side, while the S and E side have later insertions where once the hinge and hasp to the cover were. There is no lead lining to the basin, which has straight sides and a flat base. The bowl is set on a concave tapering circular drum with a roll-moulding at its foot, all on a circular base set on a large square plinth. These are of a pale buff limestone, probably early 20thc.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.7172, -2.6685

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 43′ 1.92″ N, 2° 40′ 6.6″ W

UTM: 30U 523402 5618430

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 5 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 54 cm* / 48 cm**

Diameter (includes rim): 64 cm* / 64 cm**

Basin Depth: 24 cm* / 23 cm**

Basin Total Height: 40 cm* / 39.5 cm**

Height of Base: 53 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 86 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 92.5 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk/WEBSITE/VILLAGE/FONT/chilcombefont.htm] / ** CRSBI (2018)

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: there is evidence of removed hardware from a previous font cover in the upper rim of the basin

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2018-07-03 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Westminster: J.B. Nichols, 1861-1873

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