Baydon / Bayton
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B01: design element - architectural - arch-head - pointed - 8
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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church interior - nave - looking southeast
Scene Description: the font is covered with a green cloth and topped with a red bow
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Image Source: photograph taken 1 January 2002 by Duncan & Mandy Ball
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06080BAY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (late?), Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, towards the centre
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Finches Lane, Baydon, Wiltshire SN8 2LH
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 15 km ESE of Swindon on the M4
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Ramsbury
Font Notes:
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Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as "a font partly octagonal and partly circular, probably of the Early English period". [NB: the name of the place is Baydon; Tyrrell-Green has "Bayton (Wilts.)" in the text, but "Baydon" in the index]. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Circular, but at the top octagonal. Plain blank arch-heads to effect the transition. Most probably late C13." The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 12, 1983) notes: "A church had been built at Baydon by the early 12th century. [...] The nave and the two-bay south arcade are both of the early 12th century [...] The dedication of the church to St. Nicholas is recorded only from the 19th century. [...] The registers date from 1673"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. The base is octagonal, with an octagonal-to-square lower base.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, for their photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 597314 5706361
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, chalk?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, plain and flat; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 104
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 19, 88