Ditteridge / Ditcheridge / Digeric / Digerig

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design element - motifs - circle

Scene Description: a band of, all around

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design element - motifs - circle

Scene Description: a band of, all around

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design element - patterns - fluted

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view of basin

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Scene Description: notice the damage at the upper basin side showing the cover staple

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07315DIT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Christopher

Church Patron Saints: St. Christopher

Church Location: Ditteridge, Bathford, Somerset SN13 8QF

Country Name: England

Location: Wiltshire, South West

Directions to Site: Loacted just W of the A4, 8-9 km NE of Bath

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol

Historical Region: Hundred of Chippenham [Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1097?

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman

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

Church Notes: New church built in 1097

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Ditteridge [varian spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST8169/ditteridge/] [accessed 17 October 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lewis (1876) writes: "Thre is a small Norman tub-font with flutes borrowed from the Classic". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Buck (1950) classes this font in a Wiltshire group [Ditteridge, Biddestone, Tytherton Lucas, Staton St. Quintin, Winterbourne Monkton and Donhead St. Mary] defined as 'unmounted circular tub fonts' from the 'Middle Norman' period of ca. 1100-1150: "Probably the earliest of this group", and notes "a later addition of different stone introduced to raise the font to a more convenient height for baptising by affusion instead of immersion." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Circular, Norman, with an unusual motif of long rolls, as if in a wrong perspective making their tops and ends visible." The font appears to consist of two pieces: a bucket-shaped basin the sides of which are decorated with fluting on the upper half, two rows of semi-circles, one at upper basin side, the other all around the bottom of the basin, plus one row of full circles all around the middle of the basin; the lower block, probably of a later date, is cylindrical at the top but turns to octagonal avout 2/3 of the way down. Round wooden cover, flat and plain, appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.424035, -2.262571

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 25′ 26.53″ N, 2° 15′ 45.26″ W

UTM: 30U 551272 5697239

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

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"]

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

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

Lewis, Harold, The Chuch Rambler : a series of articles on the churches in the neighbourhood of Bath, London; Bath: Hamilton, Adams and Co.; William Lewis, The Herald Office, 1876