Buckhorn Weston
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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - motif inscribed
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lynda Mudle-Small, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph [March 2003] by Lynda Mudle-Small in www.dorset-opc.com/BuckhornWeston.htm
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lynda Mudle-Small, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph [March 2003] by Lynda Mudle-Small in www.dorset-opc.com/BuckhornWeston.htm
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11373BUC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1321-1331?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: John de Barwe
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 6 km SE of Wincanton, sandwiched between the A303 to the N, and the A30 to the S
Font Notes:
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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) notes that "the old font has roses round the bowl." The Dorset OPC page [www.dorset-opc.com] illustrates the font with the caption: "The octagonal font on a square base has carved quatrefoils on the sides. It is thought to be the work of John de Barwe from about 1321-1331."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat
REFERENCES
- 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. 48