Codford St. Peter / Coddun Ford

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B01: design element - motifs - geometric

Scene Description: on the four sides of the basin; described in Buck as star pattern [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 September 2008 by Trish Steel [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/952982] [accessed 7 December 2008]

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BBU01: symbol - tree

Scene Description: on the north side of the basin [cf. Font notes]

BBU02: design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle - 7

Scene Description: on the east side of the basin [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 September 2008 by Trish Steel [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/952982] [accessed 7 December 2008]

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BBU03: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 6

Scene Description: on the south side of the basin

BBU04: design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle

Scene Description: on the west side of the basin

LB01: design element - motifs - scallop - trumpet scallop

Scene Description: around the lower base [cf. Font notes] -

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 September 2008 by Trish Steel [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/952982] [accessed 7 December 2008]

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view of church exterior - west tower

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 6 September 2008]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 07314COD

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: 14 High St, Codford, Warminster BA12 0NF, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Wiltshire, South West

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photograph of this church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.159722, -2.053056

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 9′ 35″ N, 2° 3′ 11″ W

UTM: 30U 566218 5668013

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; r["References"]

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

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

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

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