Caundle Purse / Purse Caundle
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B01: symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11374CAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km from Sherborne, just N of Milborne Port
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) writes: "The handsome old font is decorated with shields and roses." In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with shields in quatrefoils." Noted and illustrated in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/purse_caundle.htm] as a font of the 15th century with a later cover. [NB: there has probably been a church in this site since Norman times but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]
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
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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. 199
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 355