Poole nr. Wareham

INFORMATION

FontID: 11355POO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located in the SE corner of the county, just across from Wareham, near the border with Hampshire
Century and Period: , Medieval
In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Of mahogany, with dainty decoration partly classical, partly Gothick. The date is no doubt c.1820." [NB: there is no trace left of the original medieval church in this site and we have no information on the earlier baptismal font(s) of the previous church here].

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972