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
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BBU01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: all around the upper basin border
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view of font
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view of font
Scene Description: the restored font with the additional length of base but retaining the old lower base or plinth
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the cover seen here with the restored vertical scroll ribs
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view of font in context
Scene Description: in the context of a ca. 1808 drawing composition by John C. Buckler
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wiltshire County Council Libraries & Heritage, 2008
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]
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view of basin - back side
Scene Description: notice the damage to the upper rim related to the hardware of an old cover
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view of church exterior - portal - detail
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view of church exterior - north portal - detail
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view of church exterior - north porch
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church exterior - north view - detail
Scene Description: where the the roofs of the chancel and nave meet
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view of church interior - chancel arch
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view of church interior - detail
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view of font cover
Scene Description: seen here restored
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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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Buck, 1951
Image Source: B&W photograph in Buck (1951)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02490DUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-07-25
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre of the nave, to the left of the S entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: "ST. ANDREW'S church was so called by c. 1150" [cf. VCH entry in bib.]
Church Address: Durnford, Wiltshire, SP4 6BA
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A345, 10 kms N of Salisbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Amesbury
Additional Comments: altered font (the base is a modern replacement)
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Wiltshire County Council Libraries & Heritage, for their permission to reproduce Buckler's watercolour of 1808
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 583454 5666494
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.143806, -1.806967
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 8′ 37.7″ N, 48′ 25.08″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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-. 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; p. 20, 25 and pl. I.18
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 225, 227
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 226
- 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?, ill. 308, p. 156
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 77