Milborne Port No. 2 / Meleburne / Mileburne

INFORMATION

Font ID: 13456MIL
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Evangelist
Church Address: Bathwell Lane, Milborne Port, Sherborne DT9 5AN, UK -- Tel.: (01963) 250248
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
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 Notes:
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

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

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Wade, G.H., Somerset, London: Methurn & Co., 1929, [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12287/12287-h/12287-h.htm] [accessed 26 March 2008]