Corscombe

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - Ogee arches - cusped - 16

Scene Description: two on each side of the octagonal basin

Image Source: Image source: digital image in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust web site [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: Image source: digital image in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust web site [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]

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Image Source: Image source: digital image in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust web site [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11297COR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Country Name: England

Location: Dorset, South West

Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km NE of Beaminster, about 15 km SW of Yeovil

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful 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

Mee (1939) notes a baptismal font probably of the 15th century. In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with, on each side, two cusped blank arches." Illustrated in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust web site [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972