Upwey No. 2 / Upway
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2012
Image and permission received (email of 23 January 2012)
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B01: design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 16
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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2012
Image Source: Detail of a digital photograph taken 14 January 2012 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 23 January 2012)
view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2012
Image Source: Digital photograph taken 14 January 2012 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 23 January 2012)
view of church interior - painting - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2012
Image Source: Digital photograph taken 14 January 2012 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 23 January 2012)
view of font and cover in context
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/upwey.htm]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2012
Image Source: Digital photograph taken 14 January 2012 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 23 January 2012)
INFORMATION
FontID: 11396UPW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Laurence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Church Street, Upwey, Dorset, DT3 5QE
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A354, just SW of Dorchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre aisle
Century and Period: 13th century / 15th century [re-cut], Perpendicular [altered?]
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. We are also grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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Listed in Long (1923) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Mee (1939), however, notes: "the shallow font decked with flowers is 13th century." The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/upwey.htm] notes that "the font is medieval, but has been damaged by over zealous re-cutting" [NB: the font is shown with a wooden cover of the four-ribs-round-a-central-pivot type -- cf. Index entry for Upwey No. 1 for a possible part of the earlier font now built into the base of a pillar in the nave]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 536513 5612885
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
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