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B01: symbol - shield - the instruments of the Passion - cross - T cross - in a quatrefoil

Scene Description: on the southwest side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web site [www.stjamestrowbridge.co.uk/images/stjames06.jpg] [accessed 18 January 2012]

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B02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - in a quatrefoiled window

Scene Description: on the south side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web site [www.stjamestrowbridge.co.uk/images/stjames06.jpg] [accessed 18 January 2012]

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B03: symbol - shield - the instruments of the Passion - three scourges - on a shield - in a quatrefoil

Scene Description: on the northwest side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web site [www.stjamestrowbridge.co.uk/images/stjames06.jpg] [accessed 18 January 2012]

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B04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle - in a quatrefoiled window

Scene Description: on the west side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web site [www.stjamestrowbridge.co.uk/images/stjames11.jpg] [accessed 18 January 2012]

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B05: symbol - shield - the instruments of the Passion - spear, reed with sponge, three nails - on a shield - in a quatrefoil

Scene Description: on the northeast side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web site [www.stjamestrowbridge.co.uk/images/stjames11.jpg] [accessed 18 January 2012]

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B06: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - in a quatrefoiled window

Scene Description: on the east side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web site [www.stjamestrowbridge.co.uk/images/stjames11.jpg] [accessed 18 January 2012]

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B07: symbol - shield - the instruments of the Passion - seamless robe, dice - on a shield - in a quatrefoil

Scene Description: on the southeast side of the basin

B08: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull - in a quatrefoiled window

Scene Description: on the north side of the basin

B09: design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 8

Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web site [www.stjamestrowbridge.co.uk/images/stjames11.jpg] [accessed 18 January 2012]

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BBU01: design element - motifs - moulding

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UB01: design element - architectural - niche or window - trefoiled - 8

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UB02: design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 8

Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web site [www.stjamestrowbridge.co.uk/images/stjames06.jpg] [accessed 18 January 2012]

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view of church exterior - west tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2011 by Derek Harper [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2521677] [accvessed 22 January 2012]

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view of font

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view of font

Image Source: 1808 watercolour by John Buckler formerly in the B.M., now in the B.L.[ref.: Add. 36408, f. 7] in [http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/museums/imagesmain/DZSWS/B466.jpg] [accessed 24 January 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07334TRO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Church Location: Church Street, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14 8DX

Country Name: England

Location: Wiltshire, South West

Directions to Site: Located 15-16 km SE of Bath, about 50 km NW of Salisbury

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury

Historical Region: Hundred of Melksham

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1475?

Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Evangelists' font / heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: a similar font, of somewhat earlier date, at nearby North Bradley

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is a 1808 watercolour of this font by John Buckler (1770-1851), formerly in the B.M., now in the B.L. [ref.: Add. 36408, f. 7]. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes: "the font is lofty, and covered with a profusion of tracery and paneling." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Described in Buck (1951) as similar to the font at nearby North Bradley, "of later date, about the end of the fifteenth century, with rather more ornamentation on the panels"; Buck (ibid.) gives details of each panel, where the symbols of the Evangelists alternate with those of the Passion. The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 7, 1953) notes: "Remains of a 13thcentury building are said to exist in the present tower and some capitals and shafts of that period were discovered at the restoration of 1846–8. [...] The tower and spire [...] are thought to be of the 14th century. The main body of the church, however, the existing casing of the tower, and the octagonal font with emblems of the Passion on its panels are of the late 15th century." The VCH entry (ibid.) has a footnote referring to Buckler's 1908 drawing of the font [cf. supra]. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], big, with shields in quatrefoils. On them the signs of the Evangelists, the Cross, the Instruments of the Passion, and three scourges." Noted and illustrated in the Parish web site [http://www.stjamestrowbridge.co.uk/history.php] [accessed 18 January 2012]: "The stone font is 15th century. On its sides are carved symbols of the four Gospel writers. Clockwise, Matthew (an angel), John (an eagle), Mark, (a lion), Luke (a bull). Between these are carved details from the Crucifixion of Jesus: clockwise, the cross; whips for scourging; nails, spear and sponge; seamless robe and coins or dice." The octagonal basin has deeply-carved sides with colonnettes at the angles, and is of the type in which the lower basin sides overhang; the octagonal pedestal base has trefoiled niches on the sides, and there are colonnettes at the angles here as well; the font is raised obn a wide octagonal plinth. The inner basin well is lead-lined.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 554567 5685369

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: oc

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

REFERENCES

Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part III", LIV, CXCV (December 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 192-209; r["References"]

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

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

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831