Corfe Mullen / Corf

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 16 arches

Scene Description: two on each side of the octagonal basin

Image Source: digital photograph by Hilary Gooding

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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view of basin - interior

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view of basin and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Hilary Gooding (The Friends of St. Hubert's Church [http://www.thefriendsofsthuberts.org.uk/view/view.php?item=35] [accessed 22 June 2008])

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view of basin's top - staple

Scene Description: one of the metal staples of the old cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Hilary Gooding

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view of basin's top - staple

Scene Description: one of the metal staples of the old cover

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view of church exterior - west tower

Image Source: digital photograph by Hilary Gooding (The Friends of St. Hubert's Church [http://www.thefriendsofsthuberts.org.uk/view/view.php?item=35] [accessed 22 June 2008])

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11296COR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Hubert and St. Nicholas [formerly St. Nicholas]

Church Patron Saints: St. Hubert of Liège [aka Hubertus] & St. Nicholas [earlier dedicated to St. Nicholas]

Church Location: 30 Wareham Rd, Corfe Mullen, Wimborne BH21 3LE, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1202 602948

Country Name: England

Location: Dorset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the A31, at the corner of Blandford Road (B3074) and Knoll Lane, in the northern suburbs of Poole-Bournemouth, in East Dorset

Historical Region: Hundred of Cogdean [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century / 15th century, Early English? / Perpendicular?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Hilary Gooding and to Rev. Pamela Walker for the photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: "Although now dedicated to St. Hubert, all three editions of Hutchins (1774, 1813 and 1868) state it to have been dedicated to St. Nicholas" [http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ison/the1.htm] [accessed 22 June 2008]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Corfe [Mullen] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SY9798/corfe-mullen/] [accessed 3 June 2024]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Listed in Long (1923) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Mee (1939) writes: "The font is believed to belong to the later days of the Norman Conquest, and has the remains of the iron fastenings by which its lost cover was locked against witches lest they should steal the holy water." In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Octagonal, of Purbeck marble with two pointed-trefoiled flat arches each side." Noted and illustrated in The Friends of St. Hubert's web site [http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ison/the1.htm] [accessed 22 June 2008]: "The octagonal font is also a 15th century feature and each of its sides is decorated by a sunken trefoiled panel"; the illustration here shows the replacement font lid is round and with a knob handle; modern. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble [polygonal II type]: "bowl with a pair of trefoil headed panels on each face; the under part is moulded to join a plain stem and base."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.7847, -2.0346

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 47′ 4.92″ N, 2° 2′ 4.56″ W

UTM: 30U 568054 5626327

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone [Purbeck marble]

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975

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