Fisherton Delamere / Fisherton de la Mere
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BU01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: several on the lower base
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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R01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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view of church exterior
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10169FIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located just W of the Deptford junction (A36-A303)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Warminster
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Norman / Early English?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photograph of this font.
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 8, 1965): "The font is of the 12th or 13th century." One of several baptismal fonts in this county that have an egg-cup shaped basin, plain but for a roll moulding at the upper rim and at the bottom of the underbowl; it is raised on a cylindrical pedestal base, a circular moulded lower base and a quadrangular plinth. The flat wooden cover with metal decoration is modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.148889, -2.002222
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 8′ 56″ N, 2° 0′ 8″ W
UTM: 30U 569789 5666855
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-12-23 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.