Wareham No. 3 / Warham

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11397WAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: [former Trinity Church, later a school]
Font Location in Church: [unknown]
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the NW side of the "Isle of Purbeck" [it is really a peninsula], about 10 km WSW across from Poole
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Winfrith [Newburgh] [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
There are two entries for Wareham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SY9287/wareham/] [accessed 21 February 2015], one of which, in the hands of the Abbey of Saint Wandrille, mentions a church and church lands in it. During his visit to the former Trinity Church of Wareham in October 1825 -by then already being used as a school- Glynne (1923) noted: "The font is a plain octagon." [NB: we have had no information recorded about this font since Glynne's notes]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 563078 5615121

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Glynne, Stephen Richard, "Notes on some Dorset churches", 44, 86-104, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923