Woolland / Wooland
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Image Source: digital photograph in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2005 [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2005 [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 11394WOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located about 8 km W from Blandford Forum on a bee-line [access is actually much longer via the A357, left at Okeford Fitspaine, then S and right turn at Ibberton]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side, by the entrance
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Late Decorated? / Perpendicular?
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:
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Listed in Long (1923) as a baptismal font perhaps of the Decorated period. Noted in Mee (1939) as "a handsome 15th century font bowl" brought in from the old church. In Newman & Pevsner (1972) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Illustrated in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/wooland.htm]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain
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