Hazelbury Bryan / Haselbury Bryan
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary & St James, Hazelbury Bryan- font"
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Image Source: digital photograph 22 May 2010 by Basher Eyre [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1884857] [accessed 31 May 2024]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2005
Image Source: digital image in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2005 [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 22 May 2010 by Basher Eyre [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1884857] [accessed 31 May 2024]
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hazelbury Bryan: church tower"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Downer, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 24 January 2009 by Chris Downer [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1133744] [accessed 31 May 2024]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11313HAZ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Early English
Cognate Fonts: A group of Dorset fonts noted in Long (1923) including: "West Almer, Canford Magna, Cranborne, East Morden, Hazelbury Bryan, Shapwick, Whitcombe, Wimborne Minster and Wootton Glanville."
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. James
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side, by the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): Dedicated to St. Mary in 1317 [cf. Church Notes], later St. James added
Church Notes: Hutchins (1861-1873, vol. 1: 276) notes that the church "was dedicated to St. Mary in 1317, but it is now sacred to St. James"
Church Address: Hazelbury Bryan, Sturminster Newton DT10 2ED, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1258 818217
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) road A354, 25-30 km NNE of Dorchester
Font Notes:
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During his visit to this church in October 1825, Glynne (1923) noted: "The font is octagonal on an octagonal pedestal, and is moulded with plain semi-circular arches." Hutchins (1861-1873) writes: "The font is octagonal, the bowl supported by pillars at each angle; the internal space beneath surrounded by the latter has apparently been filled up with masonry, at a later period. On each panel of the bowl are cut two shallow circular arches. The material is Purbeck marble." Noted in Long (1923) as a good example of "a considerable number of Early English fonts in this county [...] mostly of Purbeck marble, a fact which leads one to suppose that the majority were constructed in or near the Isle of Purbeck, and exported in considerable quantities to other parts of Dorset, and even much further afield. The type consists of an octagonal bowl, with shallow pointed arcading on the sides. The bowl is usually mounted on a thick central, and four or eight smaller detached angle shafts, standing on a low plain base." Mee (1939) notes: "The arcaded font is about 700 years old". Noted in Dru Drury (1949) as a baptismal font made of Purbeck marble. In Betjeman (1958): "13th century font with 18th century cover". In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Octagonal, C12, of Purbeck marble with two shallow arches on each side -- The font cover is late C17, simple and handsome." The octagonal basin rests on a central shaft and eight outer colonnettes, all of which raised on an octagonal lower base. The cover is octagonal and flat. In The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/hazelbury_bryan.htm]. Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble.
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 545579 5635931
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.87326, -2.3522
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 52′ 23.74″ N, 2° 21′ 7.92″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone [Purbeck marble]
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th - 18th century
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 148
- Dru Drury, G., "The use of Purbeck in mediaeval times", 70, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1949, pp. 74-98; p. 77
- Glynne, Stephen Richard, "Notes on some Dorset churches", 44, 86-104, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923
- Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Westminster: J.B. Nichols, 1861-1873, vol. 1: 278
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 77
- Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 69, 76
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939, p. 113
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 226