Bradford Peverell

INFORMATION

FontID: 11509BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located near the Pounbury Hill Iron-Age settlement
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
Noted in Barnes (1891): "the bowl of the font, which appears to have been re-cut" which, together with an arch of the same date, is all that remains of the old church [NB: the new one is described in Barnes (ibid.) as "of 13th century character", i.e., a Victorian version of a 13th-century font from the rebuilding by Decimus Burton -- not listed in this Index]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Barnes, W. Miles, "A brief historical & descriptive sketch of the churches in the rural deanery of Dorchester (Dorchester portion)", XII, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1891, pp. [36]-70; p. 67