Lydlinch / Lidlinch
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Results: 3 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Scene Description: originally four on each side [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2002
Image Source: digital image in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2002 [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2002
Image Source: digital image in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2002 [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2002
Image Source: digital image in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2002 [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11333LYD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [re-tooled], Norman [altered?]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Thomas a Becket, Lydlinch
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre aisle, under the gallery
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket]
Church Address: Lydlinch, Sturminster Newton DT10 2JA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1258 473905
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A357, 5 km W of west of Sturminster Newton, about 15 km SE of Sherborne
Additional Comments: recycled font / altered font / refashioned font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font is square with the angles chiselled off so as to form a kind of octagon. It is rudely ornamented with shallow incised niches, and rests on a round central shaft and four round pillars at the courners." Noted in Long (1923) as a baptismal font of the Norman period mounted on a five-support base. Mee (1939) writes: "The font, rudely chiselled from a square block, and decorated with arches, has been here about 600 years". In Newman & Pevsner (1972): " Font. C12; retooled." The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/lydlinch.htm] notes: "the 12C font, under the gallery, is fashioned from a square block decorated with arches." [NB: the term 'fashioned' could not be more appropriately used, as this is yet another square font that succumbed to the octagonal design at some point in its past: the basin was originally square, with four flatly carved round arches on each side; it is raised on a broad central shaft and four slender outer colonnettes, and a square lower base. Square plinth; round wooden cover, both appear modern.
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
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal, originally square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with metal decorations and handle
REFERENCES
- Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973, vol. 4: 191
- Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 64, 67, 75
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939, p. 138
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, 258