Melplash / West Melplash

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11338MEL
Church/Chapel: Christ Church
Church Patron Saints: Jesus Christ
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A3066, 3 km S of Beaminster, 5 km N of Bridport
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1845?
Century and Period: 19th century (mid), Victorian
Cognate Fonts: This font is copy of a broken font at Whitchurch Canonicorum, not far from from Melplash
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
Reported in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973) as a copy of the broken font at Whitchurch Canonicorum. The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/melplash.htm] notes: "the church was modelled on the old Norman church at Shoreham in Sussex and the font is a copy of a broken font found at Whitchurch Canonicorum." [NB: this same source points out that, when part of the church was destined for 'secular' community use in 1975, "the apse became the baptistry", which is where the font can be seen now [i.e., 2002]] [NB: the present church was built in 1846; we have no knowledge of an earlier church in Melplash].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

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