Poyntington / Pointington
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Results: 3 records
CR01:
design element - motifs - rope moulding
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
view of church interior - looking east
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
view of font and cover
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
FontID: 11386POY
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) the B3145, just NE of Sherborne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the centre aisle, opposite the entrance
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
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
Kelly's Directory of Somerset 1883 reports a Norman font in this church. Listed in Long (1923) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Mee (1939) notes "a curious old font shaped like a tumbler, girdled by a rope." In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Norman, circular, bowl and stem in one, of tapering shape. The bowl has a rope moulding at its bottom." In The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk] with Saxon date attribution.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
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; r["References"]
Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972
Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958
