Minterne Magna / Mintern Magna/ Great Minterne
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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - rosette - in a circle - 8
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2005
Image Source: digital image in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2005 [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11342MIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew, Minterne Magna
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Minterne Magna, Dorchester DT2 7AT, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1300 341251
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A352, midway between Dorchester (S) and Sherborne (N)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Font Notes:
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Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font Perpendicular, octagonal with carved panels." Noted in Long (1923) as a "good example of the quatrefoil type of bowl" of the enriched octagonal fonts of the Perpendicular period. Mee (1939) writes: "Its font is medieval and carved with flowers i quatrefoils." In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with quatrefoils." In The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/minterne-magna.htm]
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
REFERENCES
- Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973, vol. 4: 482
- Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 72, 76
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939, p. 160
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 295