Winfrith Newburgh / Winfrith / Winfrode

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INFORMATION
FontID: 11439WIN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Christopher
Church Patron Saints: St. Christopher
Church Location: 3 Fields Barn, Winfrith Newburgh, Dorchester DT2 8HB, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A352, 13 km W of Wareham, 16 km E of Dorchester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Winfrith [Newburgh]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: ¸
Church Notes: original 13thC (?) church; modifed mid-19thC
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There are two entries for Winfrith [Newburgh] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SY8084/winfrith-newburgh/] [accessed 4 October 2019], neither of which mentions a church in it; the second entry is for the land of Bolla [Bollo?], who is identified as 'Bolla the priest' [presbiter [...] ecclesiam de Wintrode], lord and tenant in 1086. The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk] ^accessed 9 January 2006 notes an octagonal font of the time of the Victorian renovation of this church in 1852. The modern font consists of an octagonal basin with large symbols [dove, etc.] inscribed in circles on the sides, and a graded chamfer; raised on a polygonal stem and lower base. [NB: the fabric of this church date back to the 13th century, but we have no information of the earlier font(s) of this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.65836,
-2.2767
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 39′ 30.1″ N,
2° 16′ 36.12″ W
UTM: 30U 551125 5612084