Stourpaine / Stour Payne
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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
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11425STO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1190?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Transitional
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A350, 5 km NNW of Blandford Forum
Additional Comments: disappeared font : the original font of this church
Font Notes:
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Noted in the revised Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874) as a modern font. The OPC Dorset [www.opcdorset.org/StourFiles/Stourpaine/Stourpaine.htm] [accessed 16 September 2011] reports: "the ancient font 'disappeared'" in the 19th-century renovation of the church. The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/stourpaine.htm] notes: "During the restoration (1858), the ancient font disappeared and had to be replaced with a 'new' one". [NB: this same source informs of the existence of a church building here since at least 1190 but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Robin Adeney and The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk], for the photograph of the modern font font
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat
REFERENCES
- Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973, vol. 1: 313