Tarrant Monkton / Tarent Monkton
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Results: 8 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16 arches
Scene Description: four on each of the four sides of the basin
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view of basin - interior
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church exterior - south 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 - east side
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view of font - plan, elevation, section and sketch
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11412TAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A354, about 7 km E of Blandford Forum
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century [re-cut?], Norman [altered]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Purbeck Marblers Guild?
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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Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font is square, with shallow arches on the Purbeck marble bowl." In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Of the Purbeck table type with four flat blank arches to each side. Re-cut." Described and illustrated in Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk], who suggests that it may be part of the production of the Purbeck Marblers Guild. Square mounted baptismal font probably of the 12th century consisting of a square basin with tapering side, raised on a broad central and four corner colonnettes and a square modern lower base; the only decoration are the four shallow blind arches on each side of the basin. [We are grateful to Gerald Duke, of www.martinstown.co.uk, for the information on, and photographs of this font and church]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone [Purbeck marble] [basin] -- limestone [base]
Number of Pieces: six
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 8 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 50 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 66 cm*
Basin Depth: 24 cm*
Basin Total Height: 28 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 97 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [all measurements courtesy of Gerald Duke [www.martinstown.co.uk]]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat with metal handle; probably 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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972