Farrington nr. Blandford Forum

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B01: design element - patterns - fluted

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 11384FAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Rural Chapel
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located about 3 km NE of Iwerne Courtney, NNW of Blandford Forum
Font Location in Church: Inside the chapel
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
Listed in Long (1923) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Mee (1939) writes of Farrington: "One great treasure has this tiny hamlet, a font thought to be Saxon. It is massive and a little battered [...] lightly-fluted bowl." Noted in Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Norman, fluted shallow circular bowl on a short stem of the same diameter as the bowl."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 75
Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972