Corfe Mullen / Corf
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view of font and cover in context
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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 basin's top - staple
Scene Description: one of the metal staples of the old cover
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view of basin - interior
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 16 arches
Scene Description: two on each side of the octagonal basin
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view of basin and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hilary Gooding & The Friends of St. Hubert's Church, 2008
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 church exterior - west tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hilary Gooding & The Friends of St. Hubert's Church, 2008
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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11296COR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century / 15th century, Early English? / Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Hubert and St. Nicholas [formerly St. Nicholas]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Hubert of Liège
[aka Hubertus] & St. Nicholas [earlier dedicated to St. Nicholas]
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]
Church Address: 30 Wareham Rd, Corfe Mullen, Wimborne BH21 3LE, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1202 602948
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
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
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Cogdean [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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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."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Hilary Gooding and to Rev. Pamela Walker for the photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 568054 5626327
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.7847, -2.0346
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 47′ 4.92″ N, 2° 2′ 4.56″ W
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, p. 79
- Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 76
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939, p. 76
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 169