Tarrant Rushton / Tarent Rushton
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Hayley, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph in Southern Life, 2003 [www.southernlife.org.uk/dorset]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11418TAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The baptismal font in this church appears modern: an octagonal basin with a thin protruding upper rim, the sides with pairs of trefoil windows framed between upper and lower mouldings; moulded pedestal base with central ring moulding; wooden cover, also modern. A photograph of this font can be found in the Southern Life site [www.southernlife.org.uk/dorset/] [NB: parts of the church fabric go back to Norman times, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, almost flat, with a dove finial; modern