Wylye / Wyli / Wyly

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design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - 8
design element - motifs - moulding
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
view of church exterior - southwest view
view of font
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 10164WYL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Street, Wylye, Wiltshire, BA120QZ
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A303, just SW of the Deptford junction, 16 km WNW of Salisbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Branch and Dole
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman? / Transitional?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to Colin Smith, for the photographs of this font.
Church Notes: "church of ST. MARY, so called in 1333" [cf. VCH entry in bib.]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 15, 1995) notes: "Wylye church may have been standing in the 12th century and had a rector in 1249. [...] Both the new font given in 1765 and that which replaced it in 1846 [...] were in the north aisle in 1991." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Baluster font of 1765." The baptismal font illustrated in Wilkes (2004) is an octagonal mounted baptismal font in the Perpendicular style; the sides of the basin are decorated with deeply carved quatrefoil windows; the underbowl has a graded chamfer; plain stem and moulded lower base, both octagonal. Raised on an octagonal plinth with kneeling stone. Wooden font cover. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font of this church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.138929,
-1.989801
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 8′ 20.14″ N,
1° 59′ 23.29″ W
UTM: 30U 570673 5665760
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-09-15 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912