Codford St. Peter / Coddun Ford
Results: 7 records
B01: design element - motifs - geometric
![on the four sides of the basin; described in Buck as star pattern [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1081207002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the four sides of the basin; described in Buck as star pattern [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 September 2008 by Trish Steel [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/952982] [accessed 7 December 2008]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
BBU02: design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle - 7
Scene Description: on the east side of the basin [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 September 2008 by Trish Steel [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/952982] [accessed 7 December 2008]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
LB01: design element - motifs - scallop - trumpet scallop
Scene Description: around the lower base [cf. Font notes] -
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 September 2008 by Trish Steel [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/952982] [accessed 7 December 2008]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - west tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 6 September 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07314COD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: 14 High St, Codford, Warminster BA12 0NF, United Kingdom
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A36, 5 km ESE of Heytesbury, 11 km ESE of Warminster, near Steeple Langford and Codford St. Mary
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Additional Comments: there are no images of the font in the usual sites [Wilkes, Ball, etc. -- checked 6 Sept 2008]
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Handbook for travellers… (1869) as a font coeval with the church [i.e., Norman]. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Holmes (1922): "The font with its curious Norman carvings is noteworthy". Noted in Buck (1951) as one in a group of Norman square fonts dating between 1130 and 1200, including those at North Tidworth, Codford St. Peter, Ebbesbourne Wake, Steeple Langford, Amesbury, Maiden Bradley, Downton and Dinton. Buck (ibid) describes the decoration on the upper row: "North, a symbolic representation of trees; East: seven six-petalled flowers in circles; South: six round-headed arches; West: six six-petalled flowers in circles." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. The top square, decorated with arches and saltires, tapering like a capital to a circular stem. The base is like an inverted multi-scallop capital. Jacobean font cover." Listed in Drake (2002).
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photograph of this church
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 566218 5668013
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.159722, -2.053056
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 9′ 35″ N, 2° 3′ 11″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Number of Pieces: seven?
Font Shape: square-to-round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square-to-round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century? / Jacobean
Material: wood
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. 29
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 227
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 184
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 175
- Holmes, Edric, Wanderings in Wessex: an Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter, London: Robert Scott Roxburghe House, [1922]
- Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869, p. 135 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=hYEOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA369&lpg=PA369&dq=hemyock+church+font&source=bl&ots=wV68KRXFhH&sig=_-CnLgSLeYKjq8YBQMsxSQrjbvA&hl=en&ei=1IKRSeTLOojKNO3c_YkM&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPR1,M1] [accessed 10 February 2009]