Bryanston / Brianston / Brianstone

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11487BRY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. Martin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
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 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 Location: on the pedestal
Inscription Text: 1) "HIC JACET COR RADULPHI SCOPHAM" 2) "HIC JACET COR RADULPHI D....HAM"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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, vol. I: 88
  • Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869, p. 241 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=hYEOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA369&lpg=PA369&dq=hemyock+church+font&source=bl&ots=wV68KRXFhH&sig=_-CnLgSLeYKjq8YBQMsxSQrjbvA&hl=en&ei=1IKRSeTLOojKNO3c_YkM&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA161,M1] [accessed 10 February 2009]
  • Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 27