Cricklade No. 1
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Results: 7 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - 16 arches - trefoiled arches
Scene Description: Two on each side of the octagonal basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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LB01: design element - motifs - trefoil
Scene Description: Alternately plain and twisted trefoils
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2001 by Duncan & Mandy Ball [http://www.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_cricklade_in.htm] [accessed 19 December 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Buck, 1951
Image Source: B&W photograph in Buck (1951)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 July 2009 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 03459CRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Sampson
Church Patron Saints: St. Samson [aka Sampson] [bishop of Dol † 565]
Church Location: 12 Bath Rd, Cricklade, Swindon SN6 6AT, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1793 979303
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located about half way (13 kms) up the A419 from Swindon to Cirencester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the entrance
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joh Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, to Duncan and Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, and to Colin Smith, for their photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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Described in illustrated in Paley (1844) as an octagonal mounted font of the late Decorated period, 14th-15th century. The sides of the basin are ornamented with two trefoil arches each, to a total of sixteen arches all around. The underbowl is chamfered and plain. The stem of the base is plain on the upper half, while the lower half "has a band of trefoils alternately plain and contorted." The lower volume of the base fans out and is also octagonal. Noted in Ponting (1894): "The font is an octagonal one of the fifteenth century with panelled sides to both bowl and shaft." Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the late Decorated period. Described and illustrated in Buck (1951). Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Octagonal. Perp[endicular]." Raised on a two-step plinth.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.6406, -1.858
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 38′ 26.16″ N, 1° 51′ 28.8″ W
UTM: 30U 579024 5721684
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Rim Thickness: 12.5 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 57.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 82.5 cm*
Basin Depth: 30 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm* / 105 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * [in Paley (1844)] -- ** [in Buck (1951); all other measurements same as in Paley]
REFERENCES
Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part III", LIV, CXCV (December 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 192-209; p. 194 and pl. VIII.47
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844
Ponting, C.E., "Architecture of the churches of St. Sampson and St. Mary, Cricklade", 27, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1894, pp. 15-24; [http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getprinted.php?id=1029] [accessed 23 September 2007]