Corscombe / Coriscombe / Coriescube / Corscube
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Results: 3 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - Ogee arches - cusped - 16
Scene Description: two on each side of the octagonal basin
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2005
Image Source: Image source: digital image in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust web site [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2005
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11297COR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary, Corscombe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: 3 Church Farm, Corscombe, Dorchester DT2 0QP, United Kingdom
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located E of the A356, 6-7 km NE of Beaminster, about 15 km SW of Yeovil
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Beaminster [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Corscombe [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST5105/corscombe/] [accessed 21 June 2025]; neither of them mention a priest of church in it. 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]
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
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, p. 77
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 170