Shipton Gorge / Sepetone
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Results: 8 records
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 church interior - looking east
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view of church interior - looking west
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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 and cover in context
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11409SHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Brook Street, Shipton Gorge, Dorset, DT6 4NA, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A35, about 4 km ESE of Bridport
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Goderthorn
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side, by the entrance
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
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:
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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].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.720587, -2.712211
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 43′ 14.11″ N, 2° 42′ 43.96″ W
UTM: 30U 520315 5618793
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: four
Font Shape: heptagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: heptagonal
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
Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972