Portesham / Portisham
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Results: 6 records
view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery
Scene Description: in 1790 - notice the medieval coffin cover used as gate
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © British Library Board, 2011
Image Source: 1790 ink-wash-on-paper drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library Online Gallery [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/p/005add000015538u00006000.html] [accessed 30 October 2011]
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: 1773 pencil-on-paper drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library Online Gallery [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/p/005add000015538u00002000.html] [accessed 30 October 2011]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Downer, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2002 by Chris Downer [/www.geograph.org.uk/photo/456559] [accessed 30 October 2011
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced under the provisons of the Creative Commons Licence
view of church exterior - window
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © British Library Board, 2011
Image Source: 1773 ink-wash-on-paper drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library Online Gallery [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/p/005add000015538u00001000.html] [accessed 30 October 2011]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © British Library Board, 2011
Image Source: 1773 ink-wash-on-paper drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library Online Gallery [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/p/005add000015538u00003000.html] [accessed 30 October 2011]
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view of font and cover
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]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11357POR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: 2 Church Lane, Portesham, Dorset, DT3 4HP [or DT3 4ET]
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located about 8 km W of Weymouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
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
Font Notes:
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There is a 1773 ink-wash-on-paper drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) of this font in the British Library collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 15538 - Item number: f. 3]. Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font is Norman." Listed in Long (1923) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The Dorset Historic Churches Trust site [http://dorsethistorichurchestrust.co.uk/portesham.htm] notes that, according to the church guide, "the font is either 12 or 13C". [NB: the base of the tower is said to be Anglo-Saxon, but we have no information of an earlier font here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.670678, -2.564143
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 40′ 14.44″ N, 2° 33′ 50.92″ W
UTM: 30U 530800 5613295
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: dlat and round
REFERENCES
Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973
Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 75