Salisbury No. 2 / Sarum

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the modern font

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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."

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view of church exterior - tower - detail

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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

Scene Description: the modern font

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Scene Description: the modern font with the old cover on it

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Scene Description: the mid-17thC (?) font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09373SAL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Thomas [later St. Thomas & St. Edmund]
Church Patron Saints: 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 Location: 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
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 30-35 NW of Southampton [the church is located in St. Thomas Square, Salisbury]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Font Location in Church: Reported inside this church ca. 1920
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman
Church Notes: original church here early-13thC; re-built mid-15thC;
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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.068256, -1.797291
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 4′ 5.72″ N, 1° 47′ 50.25″ W
UTM: 30U 584268 5658103

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-. Accessed: 2008-12-19 00:00:00. 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
Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part I", LIII, CXCIII (December 1950), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1950, pp. 458-470; r["References"]
Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part II", LIV, CXCIV (June 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 19-35; r["References"]
Holmes, Edric, Wanderings in Wessex: an Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter, London: Robert Scott Roxburghe House, [1922]