Iwerne Courtney / Ewerne Courtney / Iwerner Courtena / Shroton
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 8 arches
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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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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]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11324IWE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [basin re-tooled or modern?], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary, Iwerne Courtney
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: 1A Rectory Gardens, Iwerne Courtney, Blandford Forum DT11 8RF, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1747 811623
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A350, about 5 km N of Blandford Forum
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Additional Comments: composite font / recut font [cf. FontNotes for Mee's suggestion]
Font Notes:
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Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font is of doubtful character. It has an octagonal bowl of Purbeck marble upon a circular pedestal with a moulded capital and base. Originally perhaps Norman or Early-English, it seems to have been recut in the 17th century, probably at the time the other work of that date was effected." Long (1923) notes: "Iwerne Courtney has a modern bowl". Mee (1939) suggests: "Perhaps it was the Frekes who had the 13th century font recut". [NB: the Frekes' reference is to the family of Sir Thomas Freke who rebuilt the church in the 17th century]. Newman & Pevsner (1972) write: "Font. Octagonal, of Purbeck marble with one large blank arch-head to each side. If this is Transitional it is totally retooled." Illustrated in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust web page [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/Iwerne_Courtney.htm]
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
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone [Purbeck marble]
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973, vol. 4: 98
- Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 67, 75
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939, p. 227
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 236