Shipton Gorge / Sepetone
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Results: 8 records
view of font - south side
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 21 arches
Scene Description: west side of the font -- three trefoil arches on each of the sides of the heptagonal basin
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of font and cover in context
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view of church interior - looking west
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view of church interior - looking east
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view of font - plan, elevation, section and sketch
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11409SHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Martin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side, by the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Address: Brook Street, Shipton Gorge, Dorset, DT6 4NA, UK
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A35, about 4 km ESE of Bridport
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Goderthorn
Additional Comments: can this be two fonts? the stem has a polygonal upper rim that does not seem to match the basin shape -- is it also heptagonal? do the drain holes correspond?
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Shipton [Gorge] [variant spelling] in the Donmesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SY4991/shipton-gorge/] [accessed 29 November 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. A font here is noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The original font is preserved, and has on the bowl a sunk arcade of pointed arches." In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Heptagonal, with blank arches, early C14." The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/shipton_gorge.htm] notes this font as 'early 14C". Described and illustrated in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Gerald Duke, of www.martinstown.co.uk, for the information on, and photographs of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 520315 5618793
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.720587, -2.712211
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 43′ 14.11″ N, 2° 42′ 43.96″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: four
Font Shape: heptagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: heptagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Rim Thickness: 6 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 54 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 66 cm*
Basin Depth: 18 cm*
Basin Total Height: 29 cm*
Height of Base: 67 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 96 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [all measurements courtesy of Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: polygonal and flat, with metal handle -- staple holes from the old cover hardware still visible in the rim
REFERENCES
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1970, vol. 1: 221-222
- Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973, vol. 2: 284
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 391