Maiden Bradley
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints, Maiden Bradley: font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 26 August 2016 by Basher Eyre [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5091763] [accessed 13 February 2023]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Scene Description: visible here on two of the sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 26 August 2016 by Basher Eyre [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5091763] [accessed 13 February 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07318MAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, near the porch
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church St, Maiden Bradley, Warminster BA12 7HN, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1985 844817
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B3092, 10 km SW of Warminster
Additional Comments: damaged font -- e-mail sent 26 Dec 2005 to Jim Downes req'g repro permit [no reply yet on 9 Sept 2008] -- no reply yet [7 Dec 2008]
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Maiden Bradley in the Domesday survey. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Holmes (1922): "a fine Norman font of Purbeck marble". 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. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975. "Font. Square, of Purbeck marble, of the usual type with very flat blank arches. The arches are mostly worn away. Font cover. Jacobean, simple, of light volutes." Noted and illustrated in Jim Downes' web page on the history od Maiden Bradley [www.btinternet.com/~JIM.DOWNES1/history-church.htm], with date of ca. 1200; this source suggests that it would have replaced an earlier font, since a church has been known to exist on this site before 1066. The basin is roughly square, with slightly tapering sides; it is raised on a broad central column and four slender colonnettes; quadrangular lower base and plinth. The cover appears Jacobean and may be the work of the 17th-century carver who made the pulpit and pews. Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble; no details [source given: Professor E.M. Jope]. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST8036238658] notes: "Anglican parish church. C12, early C14, C15, 1845 restoration [...] Square C12 Purbeck marble font bowl on central pier with four smaller shafts to corners, good C17 cover."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 550212 5666391
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.14677, -2.28215
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 8′ 48.37″ N, 2° 16′ 55.74″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
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. 30
- Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part III", LIV, CXCV (December 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 192-209; p. 209
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 227
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 320
- Holmes, Edric, Wanderings in Wessex: an Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter, London: Robert Scott Roxburghe House, [1922]
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 72