Spetisbury

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Results: 3 records

B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 16 arches

Scene Description: two on each side of the octagonal basin

view of 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]

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view of font in context

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

FontID: 11427SPE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 7-8 km SSE of Blandford Forum
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, beneath the tower
Century and Period: , Medieval
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
The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/spetisbury.htm] shows an illustration of the font in this church; the font consists of an octagonal basin of vertical sides decorated with a trefoil arch or window on each side; the stem is octagonal and plain; the lower base is octagonal and moulded, and the plinth is octagonal; flat wooden cover, octagonal; appears modern. [NB: the fabric of the church goes back at least to the 13th century]

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]