Tarrant Crawford
Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2003
Standing permission
Results: 1 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 11393TAR
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 off the A350 (E), about 8 km SE of Blandford Forum
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
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
Font Notes:
Click to view
Listed in Long (1923) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Mee (1939) notes: "it is thought that the font came from an earlier church". Newman & Pevsner (1972) note a font cover of the 17th century but not the font itself. Illustrated in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk], though the font does not appear 13th-century at all [unless re-cut]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 76
Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972