Stoke Wake
INFORMATION
FontID: 11379STO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) B3143, about 14 km W of Blandford Forum
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes:
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Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font and shaft are octagonal, of a good Perpendicular type, with carved panels." Noted in Long (1923) as a "good example of the quatrefoil type of bowl" of the enriched octagonal fonts of the Perpendicular period. In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with shields in quatrefoils."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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. 72, 76
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972