Edmondsham
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Image Source: digital image in The Dorset Historic Churches, 2005 [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11303EDM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 3 km NW of Verwood, about 15 km N of Bournemouth
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
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:
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Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The old font was a modern free-stone bason on a pillar". Newman & Pevsner (1972) write: "Font. C18, baluster type." The font appears illustrated in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/edmondsham.htm] [accessed 1 December 2005] and does not seem to match Newman & Pevsner's description above, though the dating is probably correct: the font consists of an octagonal basin with stylised quatrefoil motifs on the sides, a moulded underbowl, and is raised on a polygonal pedestal decorated with mouldings. [NB: the original fabric of the church goes back to the 12th century, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]
REFERENCES
Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972