Milborne St. Andrew No. 1 / Meleburne

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view of font

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view of basin - interior

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design element - motifs - rope - 2

Scene Description: above and below a thick moulding on the upper basin side

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: sandwiched between two rope motifs

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design element - motifs - scallop

Scene Description: a band around the lower end of the basin

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design element - motifs - moulding

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of font in context

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: showing the repaired area

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11339MIL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Date: ca. 1150?

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid) (?), Norman

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N aisle [font was ca. 1923 in the churchyard -- cf. FontNotes]

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew

Church Address: Church Lane, Milborne St Andrew, Blandford Forum DT11 0JR, UK -- Tel.: (01305) 848784

Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A354, 15 km NE of Dorchester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury

Historical Region: Hundred of Puddletown

Additional Comments: recycled font / restored font / re-instated font

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for Milborne [St Andrew] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SY8097/milborne-st-andrew/] [accessed 18 April 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1961-1874) notes: "There is [...] a well proportioned Norman font, with acanthus leaves, cable, and other ornaments." Noted simply as a Norman font in the Handbook for Travellers… (1869). Long (1923) writes: "The fine tub-shaped font at Milborne St. Andrew was turned out of the church at restoration, and replaced by a poor modern piece of work. It is now [i.e., ca. 1923] in the churchyard, and in good preservation. It has cable moulding." Mee (1939) notes "a font with cable moulding and acanthus ornamentation." In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Tub-shaped, Norman, with simple decorated bands." The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/milbornestandrew.htm] notes: "During the Victorian period it was sometimes the fashion to throw out ancient fonts and Street did just that [i.e., George E. Street in the 1870s], installing in its place a new replacement. Fortunately, the old Norman font, decorated with a cable motif, was re-discovered in 1930 and put back in the north aisle, where it remains in use to this day". [cf. Index entry for Milborne St. Andrew No. 2 for the Victorian font in this church]. Described and fully illustrated in Geral Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk].

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Gerald Duke, of www.martinstown.co.uk, and to Robin Adeney and The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk], for the photograph of this font

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 550553 5625147

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.77588, -2.283

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 46′ 33.17″ N, 2° 16′ 58.8″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage System: centre hole in basin

Rim Thickness: 15 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 48 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 78 cm*

Basin Depth: 29 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [all measurements courtesy of Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]]

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1970, vol. 3, pt. 2: 172-177
Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 68, 75
Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939, p. 155
Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869, p. 202 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=hYEOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA369&lpg=PA369&dq=hemyock+church+font&source=bl&ots=wV68KRXFhH&sig=_-CnLgSLeYKjq8YBQMsxSQrjbvA&hl=en&ei=1IKRSeTLOojKNO3c_YkM&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA161,M1] [accessed 10 February 2009]
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 284