Seaborough / Seueberge
Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 4 records
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: at the top and bottom of the stem, and on the splaying lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/seaborough.htm] [accessed 6 February 2009
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/seaborough.htm] [accessed 6 February 2009
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/seaborough.htm] [accessed 6 February 2009
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font at the far end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Dorset Historic Churches Trust, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/seaborough.htm] [accessed 6 February 2009
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14253SEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (early?), Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John, Seaborough
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John
Church Address: Seaborough, Beaminster DT8 3QY, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1308 862320
Site Location: Dorset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A3066, 6 km SSW of Crewkerne
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of Crewkerne [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: permission to use The Trust's photos requested of Robin Adeney (contact) (email of 6 Feb 2009 -- mt) -- received blanket permit for all font photos at the site + offer to do other fonts for BSI
Font Notes:
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Described in Pulman (1854): "the font stands underneath the gallery at the west end of the nave. It is composed of Ham stone , and is octagonal in shape, on a stem of corresponding design. It was undoubtedly constructed at the time when the church was built,-namely the beginning of the fifteenth century” [NB: the western gallery was removed; the font remains in place]. Noted and illustrated in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [http://www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/seaborough.htm] [accessed 6 February 2009]: "The octagonal Ham stone Font, standing on a stem of corresponding design at the West-end of the Nave, is of C15 origin and was almost certainly that used by Parson John Threver when the church was first built on the site in 1414/15."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Robin Adeney and The Dorset Historic Churches Trust [www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk] for the photographs of church and font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Ham stone)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle
REFERENCES
- Pulman, George P.R., The Book of the Axe: containing a piscatorial description of the stream, and a history of all the parishes and remarkable spots upon its banks […], London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854, p. 99 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=7vcGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA256&lpg=PA256&dq=hawkchurch+church&source=bl&ots=TjjxLXpAV-&sig=_dtNZhp4BN5ikgeudqfOs24TWIU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPR1,M1] [accessed 3 February 2009]