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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11380THO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, beneath the tower
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km SW of Sherborne
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. In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[pendicular], with quatrefoils." Illustrated in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
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
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 421