Potterne No. 2
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Results: 4 records
B01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 16
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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
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UB01: design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 4
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09360POT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [base] -- 14th century (late) [basin] [re-tooled?] [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, between the entrance doors [a/o 1990]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A360, just SW of Devizes, N of the Salisbury Plain
Additional Comments: altered font? / appears re-tooled
Font Notes:
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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]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, for their photograph of this font
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; p. 278