Hammoon / Hame
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11314HAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Paul, Hammoon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre aisle, by the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Paul
Church Address: Hammoon, Sturminster Newton DT10 2DB, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1258 863774
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located W of the A350, 12 km NNW of Blandford Forum
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of [Sturminster] Newton [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: recycled cross? the font may have been made from the base of a wayside cross [cf, FootNotes]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Hammoon [variant spelling] in the Fomesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST8114/hammoon/] [accessed 21 June 2025]; it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Long (1923) notes: "Traces of the staples or of the lead plugs in which the staples were embedded remain in [...] Hammoon", a font which he describes as "an octagonal bowl on a square base". Mee (1939) notes: "The font was made from the base of a Norman wayside cross." Illustrated in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust web site as a baptismal font of the 14th-century [entry: http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/hammoon.htm]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 551975 5642328
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.93024, -2.2604
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 55′ 48.86″ N, 2° 15′ 37.44″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 66, 69, 76
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939, p. 112