Lytchett Minster
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Parish church, Lytchett Minster: churchyard"
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Image Source: digital photograph 22 April 2014 by Basher Eyre [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4004842] [accessed 4 June 2024]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Font, Lytchett Minster Parish Church. The octagonal font dates from the 16th century."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 26 February 2011 by Maigheach-gheal [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2314632] [accessed 4 June 2024]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Parish church, Lytchett Minster: font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 22 April 2014 by Basher Eyre [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4004874] [accessed 4 June 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11392LYT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church
Church Location: Dorchester Rd, Lytchett Minster, Poole BH16 6JE, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1202 622253
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A35, 6-7 km NW of Poole
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Cogdean [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, W end
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Listed in Long (1923) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The entry for this church in the British History Online [https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/dorset/vol2/pp157-160] [accessed 4 June 2024] notes: "Fonts: in nave, (1) octagonal bowl and stem with necking and moulded base, 15th-century; loose in churchyard, (2) small octagonal bowl with moulded under edge, broken, c. 1833." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SY9604693094] notes: "Parish church Dedication Unknown [...] Tower C15, - rest of church rebuilt 1833-4 [...] Simple C15 octagonal stone font." Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble [polygonal II type].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.737,
-2.057
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 44′ 13.2″ N,
2° 3′ 25.2″ W
UTM: 30U 566543 5621003
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain wooden base with very thin scroll ribs; appears modern
REFERENCES
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; r["References"]
