Fifehead Magdalen / Fifhide

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 16

some of them very eroded -- the present basin was the stem of the original font; the original stem was lost
Scene Description: some of them very eroded -- the present basin was the stem of the original font; the original stem was lost
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 8 June 2015 by Basher Eyre [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4528792] [accessed 4 June 2024]
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vew of font

Source caption: "Church of St Mary Magdalene, Fifehead Magdalen - Old Font. This old font stands beneath the west window. The Purbeck marble bowl is fifteenth century and it stands on an eighteenth century fluted pedestal. Church records show that the wooden cover for the font was made by the parish clerk in 1774."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Mary Magdalene, Fifehead Magdalen - Old Font. This old font stands beneath the west window. The Purbeck marble bowl is fifteenth century and it stands on an eighteenth century fluted pedestal. Church records show that the wooden cover for the font was made by the parish clerk in 1774."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 26 February 2007 by Maigheach-gheal [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/348261] [accessed 3 June 2024]
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view of church exterior - southwest view

Source caption: "Fifehead Magdalen: parish church of St. Mary Magdalene. Mainly 14th century."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fifehead Magdalen: parish church of St. Mary Magdalene. Mainly 14th century."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Downer, 2007
Image Source: digital photographer 2003 by Chris Downer [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/505270] [accessed 3 June 2024]
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view of church interior - nave - looking southwest

Source caption: "St Mary Magdalene, Fifehead Magdalen: nave" -- the modern font by the door; the composite font at the back, by the west wall
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary Magdalene, Fifehead Magdalen: nave" -- the modern font by the door; the composite font at the back, by the west wall
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 8 June 2015 by Basher Eyre [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4528846] [accessed 4 June 2024]
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view of font and cover

Source caption: "Church of St Mary Magdalene, Fifehead Magdalen - Font" -- the modern font is 20thC
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Mary Magdalene, Fifehead Magdalen - Font" -- the modern font is 20thC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 26 February 2007 by Maigheach-gheal [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/348252] [accessed 3 June 2024]
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view of font and cover

Source caption: "St Mary Magdalene, Fifehead Magdalen: font (2)"
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary Magdalene, Fifehead Magdalen: font (2)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 8 June 2015 by Basher Eyre [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4528792] [accessed 4 June 2024]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 25533FIF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalen
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Church Location: Fifehead Magdalen, Gillingham SP8 5RT, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located 5 km SW of Gillingham, 8 km W of Shaftesbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Gillingham [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 15th century [fragment], Perpendicular [composite
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Fifehead [Magdalen] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST7821/fifehead-magdalen/] [accessed 4 June 2024]; it menions neither priest nor church in it. The British History Online [https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/dorset/vol4/pp19-21] [accessed 3 June 2024] notes: "Font [...] with octagonal stone bowl with two trefoil-headed panels on each face, 15th century, on gadrooned and fluted baluster-shaped pedestal, with moulded octagonal base and cable moulding at top, early 18th century. Font-cover: of oak, octagonal, with turned finial, 18th century." Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble [polygonal II type]; "stem only remains, reused as a small bowl on top of a modern stone stem". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST7828021596] notes: "Parish Church. Nave chancel and tower C14, alterations of C15 and C17, north chapel C17 or C18, alterations of C19 and restoration of 1905 [...] font with small C15 octagonal stone bowl with trefoiled panels on C18 gadrooned and fluted plinth; [...] main font C20".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.9926, -2.3133
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 59′ 33.36″ N, 2° 18′ 47.88″ W
UTM: 30U 548193 5649226

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1774
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. ImagesArea]

REFERENCES

Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975