Bryanston / Brianston / Brianstone

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LB01: inscription

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Scene Description: [cf. Inscription area]

INFORMATION

FontID: 11487BRY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located near Blandford, it was the estate church of the manor house; later the manor house became the Bryanston public school and St. Martin is now the school chapel
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
Gough (1792) writes: "Hutchins gives an instance of a font for a funeral monument. On the pedestal of that at Brianston is this inscription: "His jacet cor Radulphi d....ham, which he supplies 'Scopham', one of the antient lords of the manor." [NB: Gough is quoting from Hutchins' original edition of 1774, in 2 vols.] Noted in Paley (1844) as a baptismal font bearing a sculptured inscription. The Handbook for travellers… (1869) states that "a mutilated inscription marks the resting-place of the heart of Ralph de Stopham, one of the early lords of the manor."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the pedestal
Inscription Text: 1) "HIC JACET COR RADULPHI SCOPHAM" 2) "HIC JACET COR RADULPHI D....HAM"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset: a view of the principal towns, seats, antiquities, and other remarkable particulars in Dorset, 1774
Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844