Winterborne Tomson
Image copyright © Miss Steel, 2010
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3127708] [accessed 24 October 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the tip of the font basin appears in the foreground of the image, left corner
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Searle, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2009 by Mike Searle [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1338171] [accessed 24 October 2013]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 18th-century (?) font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 18th-century (?) font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Searle, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2009 by Mike Searle [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1338249] [accessed 24 October 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the 18th-century (?) font and cover -- this image shows the lead lining inside the basin well
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Miss Steel, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 January 2010 by Miss Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1693373] [accessed 24 October 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 11421WIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Off Marsh Lane, Winterborne Tomson, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 9HA
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A31, near Anderson, about 13 km W of Wimborne Minster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Robin Adeney and The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk], for the photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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Mee (1939) notes "the pretty little font" without further detail. The Churches Conservation Trust [www.visitchurches.org.uk] entry for Winterborne Tomson St. Andrew's notes that the font cover, together with several other wooden furnishings in this church, was part of the refurbishment by Rev. William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury [1716-1737]. The present font is illustrated in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk]: octagonal basin, rather shallow, raised on a broad octagonal pedestal base; the basin sides are decorated with a garland, the stem with blind arches; most of the font appears covered in whitewash [or paint?]; the oak cover is octagonal and pyramidal but almost flat, with a knob finial. [NB: this little church, one of few to retain its original apse, dates from the Norman period but we have no information on the earlier font(s)]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.77627, -2.16485
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 46′ 34.57″ N, 2° 9′ 53.46″ W
UTM: 30U 558883 5625278
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th century
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Byrne, Matthew, Beautiful churches saved by The Churches Conservation Trust, London: Frances Lincoln, 2013
Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939