Stour Provost / Stower Provost

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11415STO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km W of Shaftesbury
Font Notes:
Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font, of Purbeck marble, has an octagonal bowl on a niched pedestal with trefoiled heads sculptured above it." In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with simple panelling." Illustrated in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrustco.uk]: the font is located in the west end of the nave, on the south side, near the south entrance; it consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides, each decorated with a pair of trefoil (?) arches; chamfered underbowl; octagonal stem decorated with a trefoil arch chamfer on each side; moulded splaing lower base; the wooden font cover is octagonal, plain and appears modern.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973, vol. 4: 514
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972, p. 402