Swyre / Suere / Svere

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view of font and cover

the font is either Victorian, from the 1840s renovation of the church, or has been drastically re-cut [NB: the wooden flooring is now covering the lowest rung of the lower base of the font]
Scene Description: the font is either Victorian, from the 1840s renovation of the church, or has been drastically re-cut [NB: the wooden flooring is now covering the lowest rung of the lower base of the font]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3229208] [accessed 10 February 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font and cover

several -- the font is either Victorian, from the 1840s renovation of the church or drastically re-cut [NB: the font is resting directly on the stone ground]
Scene Description: several -- the font is either Victorian, from the 1840s renovation of the church or drastically re-cut [NB: the font is resting directly on the stone ground]
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

design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a circle

several -- the font is either Victorian, from the 1840s renovation of the church, or has been drastically re-cut
Scene Description: several -- the font is either Victorian, from the 1840s renovation of the church, or has been drastically re-cut
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3229208] [accessed 10 February 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - in a circle

several -- the font is either Victorian, from the 1840s renovation of the church, or has been drastically re-cut
Scene Description: several -- the font is either Victorian, from the 1840s renovation of the church, or has been drastically re-cut
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3229208] [accessed 10 February 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior in context - southeast view

MOD FONT digital photograph taken 4 September 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3229208] [accessed 10 February 2020]
Scene Description: MOD FONT digital photograph taken 4 September 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3229208] [accessed 10 February 2020]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Faherty, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 March 2013 by Mike Faherty [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/525965] [accessed 10 February 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11431SWY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century / 19th century, Perpendicular? / Victorian?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Notes: church ca. 1400; re-built 1843
Church Address: Church Rd, Swyre, Dorchester DT2 9BZ, UK
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B3157, 10 km SE of Bridport
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Uggescombe
Additional Comments: altered font? (if the present font is 15thC it has been drastically re-cut) -- disappeared font? (the one from the original 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Swyre [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SY5288/swyre/] [accessed 10 February 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/swyre.htm] illustrates the font and cover; the font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with varied quatrefoil motiefs; graded underbowl chamfer; plain octagonal stem on moulded lower base, also octagonal; wooden cover of the four-ribs-around-a-pivot type; looks modern. [NB: the font appears too sharp to be 15th-century as claimed [cf. infra]; has it been re-cut?]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SY5280588237] notes: "Parish Church. C15 west tower and chancel-arch. Nave and chancel rebuilt in 1843. Vestry and organ-chamber added in 1885. [...] Font, stone octagonal bowl with quatrefoils-in-circles. Octagonal stem and base, C15." [NB: one source reports the first recorded rector in this church in 1297 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 this font

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 523309 5615627
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.692, -2.67
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 41′ 31.2″ N, 2° 40′ 12″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century? -- Victorian?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]