Uplyme / Lim

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: much damaged; it was probably a roll moudling originally, much damaged now

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2019 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 10 November 2019)

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2019 by Colin Smith

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view of basin - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2019 by Colin Smith

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: showing damage and repairs, and what appears to be a blocked drain in the centre

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2019 by Colin Smith

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view of basin - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2019 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2019 by Colin Smith

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view of stoup

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view of stoup in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2019 by Colin Smith

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view of stoup in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2019 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 10 November 2019)

INFORMATION

FontID: 14332UPL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: Pound Ln, Uplyme, Lyme Regis DT7 3TT, UK -- Tel.: +44 1297 444499

Country Name: England

Location: Devon, South West

Directions to Site: Located 1-2 km NW of Lyme Regis, in the county border with Dorset

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter

Historical Region: Hundred of Axminster

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, about half way down the S side of the nave

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and altered stoup(?)

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Uplyme [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SY3293/uplyme/] [accessed 16 November 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Pevsner (1952) and Hoskins (1954) complain about the 19th-century over-restoration, but neither mentions the font [was it replaced at the time?]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SY3249693511] notes "Parish church. C14 and C15 restored in 1867"; no font mentioned in it. The Uplyme Church site [www.uplymechurch.org.uk/welcome/history/] [accessed 17 November 2019] notes: "An octagonal Saxon Font stands in the corner", probably referring to the stone object [font or stoup] that is located on the south of the nave, about half way down the nave; the period given for the object is way off the mark; it consists of a tapering octagonal basin with a considerable moulding all around its middle and another at the bottom, raised on a plain slender octagonal shaft and a plain octagonal lower base; the basin is rather small for a font but it appears to va had a centre drain, now blocked. The object appears to have been originally a holy-water stoup, probably re-used as font at some point. The general appearance would fit into the original date of the church itself, the 14th or 15th century. It shows damage and repairs done to the upper rim of the basin and some on the sides as well.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 503507 5620213

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: no lining