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BBU01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 August 2007 by Trish Steel [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/538944] [accessed 18 December 2008]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Facey, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2006 by Peter Facey [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/196488] [accessed 18 December 2008]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Facey, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2006 by Peter Facey [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/196490] [accessed 18 December 2008]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2007 by Trish Steel [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/538944] [accessed 18 December 2008]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 07398STR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Lawrence [now [2008] disused]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, by the doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SW of Salisbury (access from the A354, at Coombe Bissett)
Additional Comments: altered font?
Font Notes:
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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 Location: Around the top of the bowl
Inscription Text: "[...] hic sistat [...]"
Inscription Notes: Only these words were discernible in C&H's time
Inscription Source: Cox & Harvey (1907: 184)
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 184