Buckhorn Weston
Image copyright © Lynda Mudle-Small, 2003
PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
Results: 2 records
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
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font and cover
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
FontID: 11373BUC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located about 6 km SE of Wincanton, sandwiched between the A303 to the N, and the A30 to the S
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1321-1331?
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: John de Barwe
Font Notes:
Click to view
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