Milborne Port No. 2 / Meleburne / Mileburne

INFORMATION

FontID: 13456MIL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist
Church Location: Bathwell Lane, Milborne Port, Sherborne DT9 5AN, UK -- Tel.: (01963) 250248
Country Name: England
Location: Somerset, South West
Directions to Site: Located onff the B3145 [Crackmore / London Rd], 5 km NE of Sherborne, in the Dorset-Somerset border area [NB: Milborne Port appears often as part of Dorset]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Horethorne
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
There are two entries for Milborne [Port] [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST6718/milborne-port/] [accessed 18 April 2018], one of which, in the lordship King William and Reinbald of Cirencester in 1086, reports "1 church. 1.0 church lands" in it. Wade & Wade (1929) report that "the original niches and stoups of the W. front will be found built into a small mortuary chapel at the N.W. corner of the churchyard" [NB: the original church was Norman]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.9665, -2.461
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 57′ 59.4″ N, 2° 27′ 39.6″ W
UTM: 30U 537849 5646238

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929