Monkton Wyld / Monckton Wyld

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B01: design element - motifs - cinquefoiled - 8

Scene Description: the modern font

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BBU01: design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: a band around the upper basin side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Coelmor, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2008 by Coelmor [http://www.flickr.com/photos/23401971@N03/2819912064/in/set-72157607072307003/] [accessed 6 January 2010]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15802MON
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Monkton Wyld, Dorset, DT6 6DQ
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located near Whitchurch Canonicorum, 8 km N of Lyme Regis
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Date: 1850
Century and Period: 19th century (mid), Victorian
The June 1850 issue of The Gentleman's Magazine (vol. 188: 654) notes the consecration of a new church in Monkton Wyld om 14 March of the same year by the Bishop of Salisbury, and mentions a new baptismal font of Caen stone. [NB: there may have been a medieval chapel here, but we have no information of it or a font in it].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.762475, -2.942827
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 45′ 44.91″ N, 2° 56′ 34.18″ W
UTM: 30U 504032 5623413

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, Caen stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle