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Image Source: B&W photograph by the Rev. E.V. Tanner in Long (1923)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11370WIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located, 3 km NE of Bere Regis, about 11 km SSE of Blandford Forum
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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Noted in Long (1923) as a post-Reformation baptismal font with a nice cover. In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. 1736. A baluster." The font consists of a heavily moulded basin of inverted-bell shape, raised on a round pedestal of the baluster type; the cover is a hemispherical dome with a stylised acorn or pineapple finial. The Dorset OPC web site [www.dorset-opc.com/WinterborneKingston/Mons.htm] cites the entry in the RCHM-Dorset (1970) that dates the font to 1736 by an inscription on the pedestal, and the oak font cover also to the 18th century. [NB: although the original fabric of the church goes back to the Early English period [1190-1250], we have no information of the earlier font(s) of this church]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th century
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 74 and pl. opp. p. 71
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 481