Horton nr. Poole / Hortune

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design element - motifs - trefoil - in a circle - 8

Scene Description: the upper side of the basin shows the new-stone insert repairs, visible here in lighter tones

Image Source: photograph taken 5 August 1998 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3274480] [accessed 11 November 2015]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Wolfrida, Horton. The church has its origins in the 12th or 13th centuries with restorations in 1869 and 1900. The tower is either by or influenced by Vanbrugh who was working locally. St Wolfrida, who died at Horton as the Abbess of a nunnery. It is the only church in the county dedicated to this lady." [NB: the exterior shape dates to the 1722 re-building of the medieval church]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 November 2009 by Maigheach-ghea [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1587607] [accessed 11 November 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: photograph taken 5 August 1998 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3274480] [accessed 11 November 2015]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital image in http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/horton.htm

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11322HOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Wolfreda

Church Patron Saints: St. Wolfreda [aka Wolfrida]

Church Location: Horton, Dorset, England, BH21 7JA

Country Name: England

Location: Dorset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B3078, N of Holt, NNE of Poole

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury

Historical Region: Hundred of Bradbury

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular

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

Church Notes: original church 12th-13thC, remodelled 1722, restored 1869 and 1900

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Horton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU0207/horton/] [accessed 11 November 2015]; it reports two churches in it. The 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874) notes: "There is a good octagonal Perpendicular font, not now in use. The bowl has trefoils on each panel, and trefoil-headed panels sculptured on the stem." In The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/horton.htm]: an octagonal mounted font probably of a late date [NB: this same source informs that the original Benedictine Abbey in Horton was founded in 961 AD; eventually, after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the priory church became parish church after 18 March 1539, so it is quite likely that a baptismal font would have been set up after that date -- the church underwent major changes in the 18th century]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.866547, -1.958455

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 51′ 59.57″ N, 1° 57′ 30.44″ W

UTM: 30U 573293 5635501

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle

REFERENCES

Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973