Radipole

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Scene Description: Church notice relating the changes to the basin

Image Source: digital photograph in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the church and churchyard seen from Southhill

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2007 by G.N. Frykman [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:P5310026.JPG] [accessed 30 October 2011]

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view of church exterior

Image Source: September 1790 ink-wash-on-paper drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library Online Gallery [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/r/005add000015538u00010000.html] [accessed 30 October 2011]

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church exterior in context

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: showing the position of the font against the north wall

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view of church interior - looking west

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view of font

Scene Description: as was in 1773, with the plain square pedestal base [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: 1772 pencil-on-paper drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library Online Gallery [

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view of font - plan, elevation, section and sketch

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view of font - south side

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view of font - upper view

Scene Description: showing the original shape of the north side and corners, and of one of the plugs for the lock hardware -- also visible here is the blocked drain hole

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view of font - west side

Scene Description: showing the original shape of the north side of the basin

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view of font in context

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Scene Description: a capital (?) now used as fountain/fishpond in the churchyard

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Scene Description: a capital (?) now used as fountain/fishpond in the churchyard, showing the small basin well

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11408RAD

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Ann [earlier St. Mary]

Church Patron Saints: St. Anne [earlier dedication to Sty. Mary until 1605]

Church Location: Radipole Lane, (at the junction with Spa Rd), Radipole, Weymouth, Dorset, DT3 5HT

Country Name: England

Location: Dorset, South West

Directions to Site: Located 2-3 km from Weymouth, just N of Radipole Lake

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, N side, by the former door to the medieval village [N door?]

Date: ca. 1250?

Century and Period: 13th century [re-cut?], Medieval [altered]

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is a 1773 pencil-on-paper drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) of this font in the British Library collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 15538 - Item number: f.9]. Grimm's drawing shows a square basin with tapering sides, raised ona plain quadrangular pedestal base and a lower base, also quadrangular, decorated with graded mouldings. The 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874) notes the following: 1)the original Hutchins ed. stated that the Church of Radipole "was anciently the mother-church of Melcombe Regis, but was made a chapel of ease to it in 1605"; 2)there is evidence that the 14th-century church was built "on the site of a previous edifice; as the base of a font, apparently Norman, which was removed from the church, is still preserved in the village" [NB: where is that base now?]; and, 3)"This church was generally restored and re-seated [...] during the past year [i.e., ca. 1862?], and at the same time a handsome modern font was added" [NB: obviously not the same font described in the other sources below]. Described and fully illustrated in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]; the font consists of a basin that was originally square but three of the sides were re-cut in the 16th century to round, leaving one flat, the one against the wall; the original base was made of a central shaft with four outer colonnettes; the current base is a 19th-century restoration/replacement. The Weymouth.here-on-the.net informs that the church was originally built ca. 1250 and was known as St. Mary's until 1605, when the name [and the dedication?] changed to St. Ann's.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 537731 5607334

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: square (mounted) [re-cut -- cf. FontNotes]

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square [re-cut -- cf. FontNotes]

Drainage Notes: [drain now filled]

Rim Thickness: 7 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 52 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 66 cm*

Basin Depth: 28 cm*

Basin Total Height: 33 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 66 x 70 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [all measurements given here correspond to the re-cut font and are courtesy of Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]]

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