Salisbury No. 2 / Sarum
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern font
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font with the old cover on it
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: the modern font
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view of church exterior - tower - detail
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Thomas & St Edmund Church, Salisbury. The Church of St Thomas a Becket stands in its own square at the north end of the High Street, a few hundred metres from the Cathedral Close. Its site lays claim to the first active place of worship in New Sarum prior to the building of the Cathedral, but most of its fabric dates from the fifteenth century."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Guillett, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2012 by Paul Guillett [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2996289] [accessed 8 September 2015]
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view of church interior - chancel arch - painting
Scene Description: late-15th century Last Judgment mural painting
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view of church interior - looking east
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view of font cover
Scene Description: the mid-17thC (?) font cover
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09373SAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Thomas [later St. Thomas & St. Edmund]
Font Location in Church: Reported inside this church ca. 1920
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka St. Thomas à Becket] [the advocation of St. Edmund was added late into the 29th century when nearby St. Edmund's was closed]
Church Notes: original church here early-13thC; re-built mid-15thC;
Church Address: St Thomas Square, Beckets, Salisbury SP1 1BA, United Kingdom -- St Thomas Square, Beckets, Salisbury SP1 1BA, United Kingdom
Phone:+44 1722 322537
Phone:+44 1722 322537
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 30-35 NW of Southampton [the church is located in St. Thomas Square, Salisbury]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Additional Comments: recycled font: since the font appears older than the church, it may have come form an earlier/other church -- price of a font: the cost of reinstating the font and adding a new cover in 1661 was £4 15s. 5d [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Holmes (1922) notes: "The old font would seem to have originally belonged to another church, as its style ante-dates the foundation (1220) of St. Thomas' church." Buck (1950) writes: "The old font of St. Thomas's [...] was turned out in 1649 and reinstated in 1661, being then also fitted with a new cover; the total cost according to the Churchwardens' accounts was £4 15s. 5d." Dated "late 12th-century" in Betjeman (1958). Noted in the Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 6, 1962): "A font of late Norman date, and believed to have been originally from St. Thomas's, was retrieved from a neighbouring garden in 1895. A new font was erected in memory of a former vicar W. G. Birkbeck (d. 1900)." Not mentioned in Pevsner & Cherry (1975). [NB: the new font is now [August 2015] inside the church, with old cover on it; where is the old font?]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 584268 5658103
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.068256, -1.797291
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 4′ 5.72″ N, 1° 47′ 50.25″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
LID INFORMATION
Date: ca. 1661?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: yes; pulley
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 392
- Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part I", LIII, CXCIII (December 1950), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1950, pp. 458-470; p. 460-461
- Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part II", LIV, CXCIV (June 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 19-35; p. 33
- Holmes, Edric, Wanderings in Wessex: an Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter, London: Robert Scott Roxburghe House, [1922]