Walditch
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Results: 11 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Scene Description: now only on the front side [cf. Font notes]
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LB01: design element - patterns - gadrooned
Scene Description: all around the quadrangular lower base
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R01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: in the corner spandrels of the upper surface
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view of basin - upper view
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - looking east
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view of church interior - looking west
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view of font - front side
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view of font - plan, elevation, section and sketch
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view of font and cover in context
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11390WAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located E of Bridport, S of Bradpole
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century [re-cut], Norman [altered?]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Purbeck Marblers Guild
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Gerald Duke, of www.martinstown.co.uk, for the information on, and photographs of this font.
Font Notes:
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Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The original Norman font remains." Listed in Long (1923) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Norman, of the square Purbeck type. One side with six of the standard bank arches, two others re-cut, leaf spandrels in the corners of the top surface." Described and illustrated in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk], who suggests the attribution of this font to the Purbeck Marblers Guild. The upper surface of the basin has foliage motif in the spandrels; the cylindrical pedestal base is made up of blocks [four?]; the quadrangular lower base has a well-executed pattern of gadroons all around which end in the fashion of the cushion-capital bases found in other areas of England. [We are grateful to Gerald Duke, of www.martinstown.co.uk, for the information on, and photographs of this font and church]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone [Purbeck]
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 7 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 52 cm*
Basin Depth: 20 cm*
Basin Total Height: 26 cm*
Height of Base: 59 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 85 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 66 x 66 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [all measurements courtesy of Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and handle; appears modern
REFERENCES
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1970
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. 75
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972