Hammoon

INFORMATION

FontID: 11314HAM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Paul
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre aisle, by the entrance
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
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]

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; r["References"]
Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939