Exbury / Ekeresbur / Eukeresbury / Teocreberie
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Don Cload, 2011
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view of church interior - chancel
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior, The Church of St Katharine. Looking down the chancel towards the sanctuary. The glass of the east window was made by Powell and Sons of Whitefriars London."
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover are visible at the far [west] end
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior, The Church of St Katharine. The font is positioned near the entrance of the church which symbolizes baptism and entry into the Christian faith. The font at St Katharine's dates from the 13th century and is made from Purbeck stone. The recumbent figure is that of Alfred Forster which was designed by Cecil Thomas."
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 July 2010 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1979039] [accessed 28 July 2018[
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17588EXB
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Katherine of Alexandria [originally from the medieval church demolished 1827]
Church Patron Saints: St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine]
Church Location: [NB: address and coordinates are for the modern replacement church] Summer Lane, Exbury, Southampton SO45 1AZ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the main road from Dibden or Beaulieu, 2 km inland from the Solent coast
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Portsmouth
Historical Region: Hundred of Bishop's Waltham -- Hundred of Redbridge [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church, by the entranceway
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: many of this type all over this region; the one at Durley and Brockenhurst, nearby
Church Notes: present church built 1907; the VCH entry [cf. FontNotes] has 'dedication unknown' for the earlier 19thC chapel on the same site; Crockford's
There is an entry for Exbury [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SZ4298/exbury/] [accessed 28 June 2018], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "Exbury was a chapelry of Fawley until 1863. The earliest mention of the chapel is in 1291 [...] The [present] church, of no known dedication, [was] consecrated in 1827 [...] The font is of Purbeck marble, c. 1200, with a shallow square bowl with chamfered angles, and probably cut down. It stands on a circular shaft, and probably had formerly four angle columns." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP3668912487] [accessed 28 June 2018] reports a "C13 Purbeck font probably from old church." The CRSBI (2018) entry notes: "The medieval church, demolished in 1827, was a mile to the S at Lower Exbury, where the Beaulieu River runs into the Solent. The only Romanesque feature is the Purbeck font, transferred from the medieval church via Mitford’s church to the present one. [...] The font is at the W end of the nave in the centre. It consists of an inaccurate cuboid bowl of Purbeck marble with chamfered vertical angles. The bowl stands on a single cylindrical shaft of Purbeck without capital or base, and this on a tall modern three-step plinth of ashlar. The bowl has a circular unlined basin, and there are repairs indicating lock removal at the N and S of the rim. [...] VCH suggests that the font has been cut down and dates it c.1200 (accepted here). The EH List Description offers a 13thc date, while Pevsner and Lloyd do not commit themselves."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.80065,
-1.3954
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 48′ 2.34″ N,
1° 23′ 43.44″ W
UTM: 30U 613073 5628884
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Diameter (inside rim): 53.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 21 cm*
Height of Central Column: 21 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 64 x 65 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2018)
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-08-17 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2018-06-28 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
