Codford St. Mary / Coddun Ford

Noted in the Handbook fro travellers… (1869) as a Norman font. Drawing of a font in the Harvey Pridham Drawings of English Fonts (MS 56). [Folder Number, Item Description]. University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept., done by Harvey Pridham in September 1888 accompanied by the following description: "All circular. Circular bowl, raked sides, lead lined, with plan curved in section, 13" deep, 3 1/2 margin; Position, on West side of South Porch in South aisle. Modern cover." Noted and illustrated in Buck (1951) as one of a group of circular fonts with moulded edges dating from the late 12th or early 13th century in the county of Wiltshire, at Barford St. Martin, Bower Chalke, Burcombe, Chilmark, Codford St. Mary [...], Monkton Deverill, Donhead St. Andrew, Teffont Magna. Holmes (1922, 2004) notes a "fine Norman font" at Codford St. Mary Church. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Norman, circular, just with rolls top and bottom of the bowl. The font consists of a hemispherical basin with mouldings as indicated above, raised on a short round pedestal base and a circular moulded lower base; narrow octagonal plinth probably of a later date. The wooden cover is round and flat, with some ornamental detail carved on the rim, and metal decoration with a ring handle.