Stockton nr. Warminster / Stottune

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 July 2013 by Timothy Marlow

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design element - patterns - scalloped - inverted-omega

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 July 2013 by Timothy Marlow

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2013 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3659229] [accessed 17 February 2015]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photographed by Colin Smith in March 2009

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 February 2007 by Trish Steel [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/327310] [accessed 31 December 2008]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2013 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photographed by Colin Smith in March 2009

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07324STO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: High Street, Stockton, Wiltshire, BA120SE

Country Name: England

Location: Wiltshire, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A36, 5 km SE of Heytesbury, 14 km ESE of Warminster, 18 km WNW of Salisbury

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury

Historical Region: Hundred of Branchbury [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Elstub and Everleigh

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Cognate Fonts: a group of somewhat similar fonts at Chitterne, Etchilhampton, Everleigh, Fifield Bavant, Longbridge Deverill, Norton nr Malmesbury, Patney (?), Stockton

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, to Colin Smith and to Timothy Marlow, for their photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted and illustrated in Buck (1951): font of the late Norman period, ca. 1150-1200. Described in Betjeman (1958) as a "Norman font with 17th-century cover amidst inharmonious surroundings". Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Circular, Norman, with a frieze of roundels at the bottom of the bowl." The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 11, 1980) notes: "A priest mentioned c. 1130 [...] possibly served a church at Stockton, but the earliest firm evidence of the church is later. [...] The church of St. John the Baptist, so called in 1560, [...] The two-bay nave arcades are of the late 12th century. [...] The registers date from 1589." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish. The font consists of a cylindrical basin, lead-lined inside, plain outside but for a band of scallop motif shaped like inverted omegas that overhang the underbowl, the latter decorated with a roll moulding at the stem; the lower base and the plinth are modern. The wooden font cover consists of a round platform with the rib-against-a-pivot design popular in 17th-century England but, in this particular case, 'enhanced' with added smaller pivots between the ribs.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.143422, -2.027396

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 8′ 36.32″ N, 2° 1′ 38.63″ W

UTM: 30U 567911 5666336

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-01-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958

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