Long Bredy / Langebride / Long Bridy

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11330BRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Long Bredy, Dorchester DT2 9JB, UK -- Tel.: +44 1308 898799
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A35, 12-13 km W of Dorchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Eggardon
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century [plinth only] -- 19th century (mid) [composite font], Medieval [composite]
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
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Long Bredy [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SY5690/long-bredy/] [accessed 23 September 2020] but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. A font here is noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "There is a handsome font recently erected, of Purbeck marble. The sides of its square bowl have the emblems of the Evangelists in sunk medallions; the plinth below the pillars upon which it rests being part of an ancient font discovered at the rebuilding of the nave." The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/long_bredy.htm] notes that the baptismal is the work of Victorian sculptor Benjamin Grassby, of Powerstock, a basin "of Purbeck marble with medallions of alabaster depicting the emblems of the four Evangelists let into the vertical surfaces. It is supported at the corners by serpentine columns [i.e., of 'serpentine' stone] and a Purbeck marble shaft. The whole rests on a Purbeck marble plinth found buried under the old floor belonging to the original font." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SY5706690585] does not mention a font or the old plinth in it.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.713301, -2.609483
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 42′ 47.89″ N, 2° 36′ 34.14″ W
UTM: 30U 527571 5618016

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted) [modern]
Basin Exterior Shape: square [modern]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

REFERENCES

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