Monkton Deverill / East Monkton / Moulton Deverel

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The old church at Monkton Deverill. A view looking south from the public footpath skirting the old church at Monkton Deverill. The building has been a private dwelling for over 20 years."

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Image Source: digital photograph 13 October 2006 by Phil Williams [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/261102] [accessed 28 July 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07317MON
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of King Alfred the Great [redundant in 1971; became a private dwelling]
Church Patron Saints: St. Alfred
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates are given for the former church]
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Monkton Deverill is located off the B3095, 8 km S of Warminster
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: originally a chapel of the church at Longbridge Deverill; 14thC tower; moct of the church demolished mid-19thC
No entry found for Monkton Deverill in the Domesday survey. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. [NB: C&H list this entry as "Moulton Deverel", in Wiltshire -- the Deverills (Longbridge, Hill, Brixton and Monkton) are all clustered just S of Warminster. C&H must have referred to the medieval font at Monkton Deverill]. Noted as a Norman font in Edward Hutton's Highways and Byways in Wiltshire (1928): 235. The entry for this former church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST8558337354] notes: "Anglican parish church, now redundant. C14 tower, rest rebuilt 1845 by T. H. Wyatt [...] Church declared redundant 1970, empty at time of survey (July 1985)"; It does not mention the font. [cf. BSI entry for Stourton for the moved font].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.1343, -2.208
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 8′ 3.48″ N, 2° 12′ 28.8″ W
UTM: 30U 555413 5665058

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

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