Fleet nr. Weymouth

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: the original font [destroyed in 1824?]

Image Source: 1773 ink-wash-on-paper drawing of this font by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/f/005add000015537u00144000.html] [accessed 28 October 2011]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

LB01: design element - motifs - spur - 4

Scene Description: the original font [destroyed in 1824?]

Image Source: 1773 ink-wash-on-paper drawing of this font by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/f/005add000015537u00144000.html] [accessed 28 October 2011]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

R01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: the original font [destroyed in 1824?]

Image Source: 1773 ink-wash-on-paper drawing of this font by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/f/005add000015537u00144000.html] [accessed 28 October 2011]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the partially re-built medieval church

Image Source: digital photograph in [http://people.bath.ac.uk/lismd/dorset/churches/fleet.html] [accessed 28 October 2011]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email 24 Sept., 2003)

view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: the modern church of 1829

Image Source: digital photograph in [http://people.bath.ac.uk/lismd/dorset/churches/fleet.html] [accessed 28 October 2011]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Scene Description: the original font [destroyed in 1824?]

Image Source: 1773 ink-wash-on-paper drawing of this font by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/f/005add000015537u00144000.html] [accessed 28 October 2011]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font

Scene Description: the 18th-century replacement font

Image Source: digital photograph in Cornish Churches [http://cornishchurches.com/Dorset%20Churches/Fleet%20Church%20Dorset%20-%20Holy%20Trinity/index.htm] [accessed 28 October 2011]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font inside Holy Trinity Church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 January 2012 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 23 January 2012)

INFORMATION

FontID: 17702FLE

Church/Chapel: Old Parish Church

Church Patron Saints: [Holy Trinity?]

Church Location: the new Church of the Holy Trinity is on Fleet Road, Fleet, Dorset DT3 4DW

Country Name: England

Location: Dorset, South West

Directions to Site: Located 3 km W of Weymouth

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: , Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Michael Day, of Dorset Churches [http://people.bath.ac.uk/lismd/dorset/churches/] for his photographs of the two churches at Fleet. We are also grateful to Colin Smith for his photograph of the modern font in Holy Trinity Church

Church Notes: the new church was built in 1829 to replace the medieval one damaged in the 1825 storm; the old church was re-built partially and stands as a chapel now

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is a 1773 ink-wash-on-paper drawing of the font at Holy Trinity Fleet by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 15537 - Item number: f.144]. The drawing shows a font consisting of a round elongated basin decorated with a rope moulding around the upper rim, and a blind arcade of intersecting round arches on columns with capitals and bases around the sides; it is raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base, and a round-to-square lower base with spurs at the four angles. The British Listed Buildings database entry for this church [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-105234-parish-church-of-the-holy-trinity-fleet] [accessed 28 October 2011], however, reports: "Font, C19, stone bowl with intersecting arching and arcaded base." The Cornish Churches web site [http://cornishchurches.com/Dorset%20Churches/Fleet%20Church%20Dorset%20-%20Holy%20Trinity/index.htm] [accessed 28 October 2011] illustrates a font which, though obviously modern, much resembles the one depicted in Grimm [cf. supra], except that the modern font has its pedestal base decorated with a blind arcade of pointed arches with triquetra in the spandrels. This modern font matches the description in the British Listed Buildings entry above, and is probably a 19th-century replacement replica font of the medieval (?) one, which may have been destroyed in the calamitous Great Storm of 1824 that destroyed part of Fleet, including the nave of the old church.

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