Bratton / Bratton nr. Warminster

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design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons

Image Source: detail of a 1970s photograph in the Wiltshire County Council Libraries & Heritage [http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getchurch.php?id=987] [accessed 14 August 2008]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a 1970s photograph in the Wiltshire County Council Libraries & Heritage [http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getchurch.php?id=987] [accessed 14 August 2008]

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - scallop - trumpet scallop

Image Source: detail of a 1970s photograph in the Wiltshire County Council Libraries & Heritage [http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getchurch.php?id=987] [accessed 14 August 2008]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: photograph from the 1970s

Image Source: 1970s photograph in the Wiltshire County Council Libraries & Heritage [http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getchurch.php?id=987] [accessed 14 August 2008]

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view of church exterior - tower

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 14 August 2008]

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view of font

Scene Description: ca. 1806

Image Source: digital image of a 1806 watercolour by John Buckler (1770-1851) in Wiltshire Treasures [http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/museums/] [accessed 24 February 2012]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: photograph from the 1970s

Image Source: 1970s photograph in the Wiltshire County Council Libraries & Heritage [http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getchurch.php?id=987] [accessed 14 August 2008]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 14 August 2008]

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view of font and cover in context - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2016 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5089012] [accessed 12 February 2019]

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view of font and cover in context - north side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Font, St James the Great, Bratton. Looking very fresh and new it is in fact a Norman bowl, set on a 15th century base. It was recut in 1860, so it appears much newer. There are traces of a medieval iron hinge and lock, used to protect the baptismal water."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 October 2015 by Penny Mayes [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4721456] [accessed 16 February 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07312BRA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Great

Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]

Church Location: Church Rd, Bratton, Wiltshire BA13 4SY, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Wiltshire, South West

Directions to Site: Located on the B3098, 3-4 km NE of Westbury, 7-8 km N of Warminster

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century [re-tooled], Norman [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to the Wiltshire County Council Libraries & Heritage, for their photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No individual entry found for this Bratton in the Domesday survey. The ancient font here is documented in an 1806 watercolour by John Buckler (1770-1851). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Norman, entirely re-cut, circular, with scallops and a band of horizontal V-shapes above." Classed in Buck (1950) as one of a group of "Middle Norman circular Fonts, c. 1100-1150" in Wiltshire: "The carving has been recut. The pedestal is late 14th century and dates from the time when the church was practically reconstructed, c. 1400." The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2019) notes: "The only 12thc carving is the font which has been over-restored. [...] The font bowl dates from the 12thc but seems to have been heavily restored in the 19thc, probably when the Perpendicular-style base was created. It is decorated with a 0.08m high chevron band around the top, above a row of scallops 0.14m high." The Wiltshire Community History page [http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getchurch.php?id=987] [accessed 14 August 2008] notes: "The font is either Saxon or early Norman but has been restored and mounted on a modern plinth." The cylindrical basin has tapering sides and is decorated with a row of nested chevron sandwiched between mouldings at the upper basin side; below is a band of scallop with vertical projections that create a rib pattern all around; the underbowl is chamfered and plain, slightly concave; the octagonal pedestal and the plinth appear modern. Plain round wooden cover; modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.266188, -2.124647

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 15′ 58.28″ N, 2° 7′ 28.73″ W

UTM: 30U 561071 5679791

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 51 cm*

Basin Depth: 25 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2019) [NB: all measurements are for the re-cut font]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part I", LIII, CXCIII (December 1950), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1950, pp. 458-470; r["References"]

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2019-02-12 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912