Longbridge Deverill / Longbridge Deverel
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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding
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BU01: design element - motifs - scallop - decorated scallop (crosses, palmettes, etc.)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior - south view
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04801LON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid? / late?) [re-tooled], Norman [altered]
Cognate Fonts: a group of somewhat similar fonts at Chitterne, Etchilhampton, Everleigh, Fifield Bavant, Longbridge Deverill, Norton nr Malmesbury, Patney (?), Stockton
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter & St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Notes: This church was founded by a charter of King Athelstan in 930 AD and is mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086, although the oldest surviving part of the church is Norman of the mid 12th century, to period to which the font may originally belong.
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A350in the Wylye valley, 3 km S of Warminster
Additional Comments: restored font: / re-tooled font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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A letter to the editor of The Gentleman's Magazine (issue of Oct. 15, 1815: p. 393) on the Deverill churches includes a mention of the church at Longbridge Deverill and its "curious Saxon font". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Buck (1951) puts it in a Wiltshire group of late-Norman fonts dating from ca. 1150-1200, "similar to that at Stockton, but the faces of the scallops are carved with various designs". Described and illustrated in Hutton (1957) as a restored Norman font; the basin appears plain except for a row of scallop motif inscribed with a variety of symbols (crosses, palmettes, etc.) below a moulding at the lower edge of the basin; the base appears cylindrical and plain, An unremarkable wooden cover of much later date [Jacobean?] tops the font. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Circular, Norman, decorated with enriched scallops on the underside." [NB: a much later font, designed by Sir Alfred Gilbert, the sculptor of the famous Eros statue in Piccadilly Circus" is reported in the Bath Chapel in this locality -- font not listed in this Index on account of its late date 19th-20th century [source: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/avenue/pd49/places/deverill/deverill.htm]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: Jacobean (16th-17th century)?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- 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. 24
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 227
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 302
- Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976, p. 65 and pl. 205