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BBU01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07398STR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Lawrence [now [2008] disused]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SW of Salisbury (access from the A354, at Coombe Bissett)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, by the doorway
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a 13th-century baptismal font: "it is a rude stone bowl, but has a Purbeck marble shaft. Round the top of the bowl is an inscription, of which only the words 'Hic sistat' can now be discerned". The Churches Conservation Trust entry for St. Mary & St. Lawrence [http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/content.php?nID=11&churchID=279] [accessed 18 December 2008] notes: "The font and other features are earlier than the 14th century chancel". The font consists of a cauldron-shaped basin decorated with a roll moulding below the upper rim, raised on a cylindrical pedestal with several mouldings, and a rectangular plinth. The last two parts may be later additions. The wooden cover is round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (Purbeck) [base only]
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: Only these words were discernible in C&H's time
Inscription Location: Around the top of the bowl
Inscription Text: "[...] hic sistat [...]"
Inscription Source: Cox & Harvey (1907: 184)

REFERENCES

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