Dorchester nr. Weymouth No. 1 / Dore Cestre / Dorecestre
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font, probably of the 19thC restoration
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2019 by Colin Smith
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view of basin and cover
Scene Description: the modern font, probably of the 19thC restoration
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2019 by Colin Smith
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view of basin
Scene Description: the modern font, probably of the 19thC restoration
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2019 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the modern font, probably of the 19thC restoration
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2019 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 2 February 2020)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11398DOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: oldest part of present church 12thC probably on an earlier site; chiefly 15thC; restored and re-built 19thC; restored again 20thC
Church Address: 26 High E St, Dorchester DT1 1EZ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1305 250719
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B3150 [aka Bridport Rd / London Rd], N and W of the A35, 13 km N of Weymouth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Dorchester
Additional Comments: disappeared fonts: a Norman one and the later Perpendicular font
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for this Dorchester [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SY6890/dorchester/] [accessed 2 November 2014], reporting two churches and church lands here. The entry for this church in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset (vol. 2, Souuth east, 1970) notes: "The reset S. doorway indicates the former existence of a late 12th-century church on the site. The present building, including the Chancel, Nave, Aisles, South Porch and West Tower, is of the 15th century [...] The main restoration of the church was in 1856–7 [...] Further restorations took place in 1905, 1934, and 1961–5"; the entry does not mention a font in it. The baptismal font from the original Perpendicular church of St. Peter's seems to have disappeared. Even by the time of Glynne's visit on 11 October 1825 the font was absent from any description of the church and its contents. Barnes (1891) notes: "The font is modern" [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of the Norman curch either]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 539762 5618346
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.71556, -2.436777
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 42′ 56.02″ N, 2° 26′ 12.4″ W
REFERENCES
- Barnes, W. Miles, "A brief historical & descriptive sketch of the churches in the rural deanery of Dorchester (Dorchester portion)", XII, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1891, pp. [36]-70; p. 38