Silchester No. 2 / Calleva Atrebatum / Cilcestre / Ciltestere / Scilchestre / Silcestre / Sylkchester
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 May 2010 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Hayley, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Chris Hayley in Southern Life [http://www.southernlife.org.uk/silchesterchurch.htm] [accessed 20 August 2008]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 May 2010 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 May 2010 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Hayley, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Chris Hayley in Southern Life [http://www.southernlife.org.uk/silchesterchurch.htm] [accessed 20 August 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 May 2010 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06779SIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the N aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Lane, Silchester, Hampshire RG7 2HH, UK
Site Location: Hampshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just E of Tadley, 8-9 km N of Basingstoke
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Holdshot / Holdshott
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Silchester [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SU6261/silchester/] [accessed 25 March 2015], but neither mentions cleric or church in it. Hone (1827) notes: "The font is of an octagonal form, of plain stone". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "The font at the west end of the north aisle is of 15th-century workmanship; it is octagonal, and has a moulded base and bowl." The font consists of an octagonal with vertical sides, plain but for a moulding at the upper rim and at the lower end; graded underbowl chamfer; moulded octagonal stem and lower base. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and handle; appears modern, probably Victorian. [cf. Index entry for Silchester No. 1 for a possible Early Christian font in the Roman town site]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Chris Hayley, of Southern Life [www.southernlife.org], and to Colin Smith, for their photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 633837 5691264
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.356861, -1.077809
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 21′ 24.7″ N, 1° 4′ 40.11″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 201
- Hone, William, The table book: cuttings with cuts, facts, fancies [...], London: Published for William Hone by Hunt and Clarke, York Street, Covent Garden, 1827, p. 693