Durnford / Darneford / Great Durnford

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - triple arches - columns with capitals and baeses - triple columns

Scene Description: Rudimentary faces carved on the capitals

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 2000 by BSI

BBU01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: all around the upper basin border

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 2000 by BSI

view of basin - back side

Scene Description: notice the damage to the upper rim related to the hardware of an old cover

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - north porch

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view - detail

Scene Description: where the the roofs of the chancel and nave meet

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 2000 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel arch

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 2000 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 2000 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 2000 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: the restored font with the additional length of base but retaining the old lower base or plinth

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 2000 by BSI

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the cover seen here with the restored vertical scroll ribs

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 2000 by BSI

view of font and cover

Scene Description: notice that the cover is missing the top scrolls, and that the support is short and old compared to the present one

Image Source: B&W photograph in Buck (1951)

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view of font cover

Scene Description: seen here restored

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 July 2000 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: in the context of a ca. 1808 drawing composition by John C. Buckler

Image Source: digital image of a watercolour by John C. Buckler for the title page of volume 1 of his 'Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Wiltshire' (1808), in the Wiltshire Heritage Library [acc. no. DZSWS:1982.301] [http://www.wiltshireheritagecollections.org.uk/index.asp?page=image&mwsquery=%7BImageFile%7D=%7BB1.JPG%7D] [accessed 23 December 2008]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 02490DUR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Durnford, Wiltshire, SP4 6BA

Country Name: England

Location: Wiltshire, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the A345, 10 kms N of Salisbury

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury

Historical Region: Hundred of Amesbury

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre of the nave, to the left of the S entrance

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Wiltshire County Council Libraries & Heritage, for their permission to reproduce Buckler's watercolour of 1808

Church Notes: "ST. ANDREW'S church was so called by c. 1150" [cf. VCH entry in bib.]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for [Great and Little] Durnford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/great-and-little-durnford/] [accessed 3 November 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is illustrated in a 1808 watercolour by John C. Buckler (1770-1852) [NB: the painting was used for the title page of volume one of his collection on the antiquities of Wiltshire]. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as "a richly sculptured circular font". Noted in Holmes (1922): "fine Norman font with interlaced arches and sculptured pillars." Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a group of Norman fonts the basins of which are decorated with an arcade of intersecting arches [T-G's list includes: Purley (Berks.), Llanfihangel Abercywyn (Carmarthen), Tidmarsh (Berks.), East Horndon (Essex), Sandridge (Herts), St. Ives (Hunts.), Oakham (Rutland), Great Durnford (Wilts.)]. Described and illustrated in Buck (1951): "a very fine font" of the late Norman period, ca. 1150-1200. Buck (ibid.) notes also that the upper part of the side "is well carved with a band of Greek ornament similar in design to that on the 'palmette' group of fonts in Devonshire". Buck (ibid.) mentions also the 'cut away' feature similar to the one on the font at Botley, Hants. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Circular, Norman; short, primitive interlaced arches; band of volutes over." The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 15, 1995) notes: "The present church at Great Durnford was built c. 1140 [...] The chancel and the nave are both of c. 1140 [...] the church contains a 12th-century font." On-site notes: old drawings and photographs show the font without the added lower base, resting directly on the square plinth [NB: the ca. 1951 photograph in Buck (1951) also shows the cover without the top scrolls]. The original basin and upper base, all one single block of golden limestone, appear to have been 'cleaned' recently and given a cylindrical lower base to make it taller. The upper part of the basin sides has a snail-like motif all around; the rest of the basin side is covered in a very close arcade of intersecting round arches, each resting on tripple columns; the capitals of these columns are carved as rudimentary faces. The old square plinth appears to be original.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.143806, -1.806967

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 8′ 37.7″ N, 48′ 25.08″ W

UTM: 30U 583454 5666494

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead lining (if not the original, very old)

Rim Thickness: 10-11 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 61-62 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 81-83 cm

Basin Depth: 32 cm

Height of Basin Side: 36 cm

Basin Total Height: 56 cm

Height of Base: 40 cm (modern)

Font Height (less Plinth): 96 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 102 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: Octagonal; "boxy" bottom part with four "S"-shape Jacobean top and small pine-cone (?) finial

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-02-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part II", LIV, CXCIV (June 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 19-35; r["References"]

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912

Holmes, Edric, Wanderings in Wessex: an Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter, London: Robert Scott Roxburghe House, [1922]

Tisdall, M. W., God's beasts: identify and understand animals in church carvings, England: Charlesfort Press, 1998?

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928