Abbotsbury

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 16 arches

Scene Description: two arches on each side of the octagonal basin

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Scene Description: 1773 drawing by Grimm

Image Source: 1773 pencil-on-paper drawing of this font by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library Online Gallery [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/a/005add000015537u00100000.html] [accessed 10 December 2011]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11405ABB

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Church Street, Abbotsbury, Dorset, Dt3 4JT

Country Name: England

Location: Dorset, South West

Directions to Site: Located on the B3157, about 14 km SE of Dorchester, 16 km NW of Weymouth

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, N side

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Gerald Duke, of www.martinstown.co.uk, for the information on, and photographs of this font.

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There is a 1773 pencil-on-paper drawing of this font by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 15537, Item number: f.100]. Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font is octagonal. It has a Perpendicular panelled bowl, on a plain stem, below which a more ancient Purbeck marble base shows the sockets of eight smaller pillars." [NB: the lower base referred to in this source appears to have been replaced by a modern one -- cf. infra]. In Mee (1939). Noted in the RCHM (1952) as an octagonal basin dated to the 15th century. Described and illustrated in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]. The font consists of an octagonal bowl raised on a plain octagonal stem, and a lower base of later [modern] date; the sides of the basin are decorated with pairs of trefoiled ogee-headed panels; the modern lower base is moulded. Duke [cf. supra] refers to Hutchins (ibid.) description of the earlier Purbeck stone base which would have had eight outer colonnettes in a design similar to that of the font at Milton Abbey.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 528224 5612804

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 14 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 61 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 89 cm*

Basin Depth: 27 cm*

Basin Total Height: 36 cm*

Height of Base: 66 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 102 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [all measurements courtesy of Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat; modern

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1970

Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973

Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Westminster: J.B. Nichols, 1861-1873

Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939