Potterne No. 2

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Results: 4 records

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B01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 16

Image Source: photograph taken April 2004 by Duncan & Mandy Ball, [www.oodwooc.co.uk]

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BU01: design element - motifs - floral - 8

Scene Description: they may have been re-tolled or re-carved at a later date

Image Source: photograph taken April 2004 by Duncan & Mandy Ball, [www.oodwooc.co.uk]

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UB01: design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 4

Image Source: photograph taken April 2004 by Duncan & Mandy Ball, [www.oodwooc.co.uk]

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09360POT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Country Name: England

Location: Wiltshire, South West

Directions to Site: Located on the A360, just SW of Devizes, N of the Salisbury Plain

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, between the entrance doors [a/o 1990]

Century and Period: 13th century [base] -- 14th century (late) [basin] [re-tooled?] [composite font?], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, for their photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Jones (1876): "that [font] now in use has a base and stem of the tirteenth century, while the bowl is of late fourteenth century work, but neither are very remarkable as to design". Described by Keith Hugo (ca. 1990) as one of two fonts in this church: "The one in use, between the entrance doors, dates from the fourteenth century, although there is a suggestion that the base and stem may be slightly earlier" [source:www.potterne.net/potterne/history.html] [cf. Index entry for Potterne No.1 for an earlier -Norman? Anglo-Saxon?- font at this church - no description is available for the third font in this church and therefore is not listed in this Index]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern

REFERENCES

Jones, W.H. (canon), "Potterne", XVI, XLVIII, The Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Magazine, 1876, pp. 245-286; r["References"]