Turnworth

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the Victorian font
Scene Description: the Victorian font
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: 11388TUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located W of Blandford Forum [but access from the A357 or A354, rather awkward]
Font Notes:
Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font is formed like a cup or a bowl, on a low base." Listed in Long (1923) as a baptismal font perhaps of the Norman period. Mee (1939) writes: "in the tower we found a tiny font hardly bigger than a basin at which generations of children have been christened here." Newman & Pevsner (1972), however, write: "Font. Elaborately High Victorian with small figure scenes." The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk] informs that the baptismal font dates from the 1869 century. [NB: are/were there two fonts in this church? -- where is the font that Long saw?-- the 15th-century tower remains of the building that existed before the 19th-century re-building]
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

REFERENCES

  • Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973, vol. 3: 472
  • 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, p. 269
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 430