Lillington nr. Sherborne No. 1
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Results: 6 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 8
Scene Description: one on each panel of the stem of the base
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design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose - in a quatrefoil - 4
Scene Description: one on every other side of the octagonal basin
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symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil - 4
Scene Description: one on every other side of the octagonal basin
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view of church exterior - northwest view
![Source caption: "Lillington: parish church of St. Michael [...] Some of the church fabric dates from the 13th century but much of what we see here dates from the 15th, including the tower."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150207004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Lillington: parish church of St. Michael [...] Some of the church fabric dates from the 13th century but much of what we see here dates from the 15th, including the tower."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Downer, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 March 2014 by Chris Downer [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3905583] [accessed 3 February 2015]
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover in context
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11328LIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Lower Street, Lillington, Dorset, DT9 6QX
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 5 km S of Sherborne
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Sherborne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, crentre aisle
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
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 13thC; restored 1848
Font Notes:
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We found no entry for this Lillington in the Domesday survey. The font in this church is noted in Long (1923) as a "good specimen" of the enriched octagonal font of the Perpendicular period, in this case "with shields and Tudor roses.In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with shields and flowers in quatrefoils. -- Font cover. Modest; C17." In The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/lillington.htm]: "The octagonal font is late 15C and has quatrefoil panels on each face, which alternately enclose shields and roses; the wood cover is 17C." [cf. Index entry for Lillington No. 1 for holy-water stoup in this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.912747, -2.52866
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 54′ 45.89″ N, 2° 31′ 43.18″ W
UTM: 30U 533136 5640228
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat octagonal base on which the usual curved ribs-around-a-pivot, but rather low; a knob at each outer angle
REFERENCES
Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 71, 76
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972