Hinton Martell / Hinetone
Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3161990] [accessed 5 February 2019]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2007 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/465972] [accessed 5 February 2019]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16 arches
Scene Description: two per side of the octagonal basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3161990] [accessed 5 February 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Downer, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 1999 by Chris Downer [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/512997] [accessed 5 February 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11318HIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side, just W of the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Evangelist
Church Address: Village St, Hinton Martell, Wimborne BH21 7HR, UK -- Tel.: 01258 840668
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B3078, justr SW of Chalbury and E of Witchampton, 10-12 km W of Ringwood
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Badbury
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Hinton [Martell] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SU0106/hinton-martell/] [accessed 5 February 2019]; it reports a church and "1.62 church lands" in it. The font here is noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The octagonal font is probably Norman." In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Octagonal, of Purbeck marble, square, C13, with two flat blank arches each side." Noted and illustrated n The Dorset Historic Churches Trust: "The Purbeck stone font is 13C." [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/hintonmartell.htm]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 571654 5634183
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.8549, -1.982
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 51′ 17.64″ N, 1° 58′ 55.2″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone [Purbeck marble]
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. Image area]
REFERENCES
- Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973, vol. 3: 142
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 229