Etchilhampton / Ashleton / Ashlington
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BU01: design element - motifs - scallop - trumpet scallop
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthgecotswolds.com] [accessed 5 September 2008]
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthgecotswolds.com] [accessed 5 September 2008]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthgecotswolds.com] [accessed 5 September 2008]
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view of church exterior - east end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthgecotswolds.com] [accessed 5 September 2008]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 07307ETC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Norman
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. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Etchilhampton, Wiltshire, SN10 3JL
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A342, 3 km E of Devizes, in the western reaches of the Vale of Pewsey, N of the Salisbury Plain
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Swanborough
Additional Comments: moved font? Re-cycled? (the 12thC font may have come either from an earlier church, or from another parish)
Font Notes:
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Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period, with "a circular bowl and shaft, on a square plinth, forming a remarkably good plain example". C&H (ibid.) inform that this font "is illustrated in the Wilts Magazine (vol. xi.)". Noted in Buck (1951) as part of group of late Norman Wiltshire fonts of ca. 1150-1200 similar to the one at Stockton. The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 10, 1975) notes: "A church was built at Etchilhampton in the later 14th century. It was annexed to the church of All Cannings as a chapel, apparently from its foundation, and remained so in 1971. [...] The only older feature in the church is a late-Norman circular font bowl. The chancel arch has an unusual ball moulding on its east side." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Circular, tub-shaped, Norman. Some scalloping at the bottom."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 574155 5688370
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with knob handle
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. 24
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 225, 227
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 241