Osmington / Osmentone
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16
Scene Description: Source caption: "The 12th century font. The Anglican parish church of St Osmund dates from 1170 (the chancel arch and the font). The north arcade is 14th century and the tower is 15th century. The rest of the church was rebuilt in 1846 and the south arcade was added. Constructed of squared, coursed rubble stone with ashlar dressings under slate roofs. Listed, grade II"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Dibb, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 30 May 2022 by Michael Dibb [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7254864] [accessed 17 February 2023]
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view of church exterior - east view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Osmund, Osmington. Historic parish church in the village of Osmington, north-east of Weymouth."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 16 January 2012 by Colin Smith [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2772165] [accessed 17 February 2023]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Osmund, Osmington: font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 7 September 2013 by Basher Eyre [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3679608] [accessed 17 February 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11351OSM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Osmund
Church Patron Saints: St. Osmund [aka Osmer, Osmond, Osmund of Salisbury]
Church Location: Church Ln, Osmington, Weymouth DT3 6EJ, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A353, 6 km NE of Weymouth, 8 km SSE of Dorchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Dorchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Cullifordtree [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman
There is an entry for Osmington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SY7282/osmington/] [accessed 17 February 2023]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font is Norman, of a pattern which frequently occurs. It has a square bowl, ornamented with an arcade, and supported upon a massive central pillar, with four smaller ones at the angles." Noted in Mee (1939) as a "700-year-old font". In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Square, Purbeck, with four pointed arches each side; C13." [NB: arches appear round-headed, not pointed [cf. ImagesArea]]. Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "Purbeck stone" [source given: The Revd. J. Woods]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SY7241982980] notes: "C15 west tower. Most of the rest of the church rebuilt in 1846, retaining the medieval chancel arch and north arcade [...] font, square stone bowl with sunk arched panels in each side, cylindrical stem with four smaller shafts on restored base, c.1200."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.6459,
-2.39145
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 38′ 45.24″ N,
2° 23′ 29.22″ W
UTM: 30U 543026 5610626
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone [Purbeck marble]
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972
