Dinton nr. Salisbury

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Results: 6 records

B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

Scene Description: on the west and north sides of the basin

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B02: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches

Scene Description: on the south and east sides; quite possibly re-carved ca. 1300 [cf. Font notes]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Buck, 1951

Image Source: B&W photograph in Buck (1951)

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10170DIN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: St. Marys Road, Dinton, Wiltshire, SP3 5HH
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the B3089, 8 km W of Wilton, 14 km W of Salisbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Warminster
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, towards the W end of the nave, by the N door
Century and Period: 12th century [partly re-cut ca. 1300?], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font.
Reported in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 simply as "a good Norman font". Noted in Buck (1951) as one in a group of Norman square fonts dating between 1130 and 1200, including those at North Tidworth, Codford St. Peter, Ebbesbourne Wake, Steeple Langford, Amesbury, Maiden Bradley, Downton and Dinton. Buck (ibid.) remarks: "An excellent example showing the transition from the Norman style to the Early English, two of the sides of the bowl being carved with round-headed and two with trefoil-headed panels." The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 8, 1965) notes: "The church of St. Mary the Virgin is cruciform with nave, crossing, and transepts dating from the early 13th century. The north doorway and square font of purbeck marble are of the same period". Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Square, of Purbeck marble, with the usual shallow blank arches. On the W[est] and N[orthj] sides they show that they are Norman, on the S[outh] and E[ast] sides they have been re-cut about 1300." Listed in Drake (2002) as a baptismal font of the Purbeck group. The font consists of a square table-top basin raised on a five-support base made up of a broad shaft in the centre and one slender colonnette at each angle, all of it raised on a square lower base and plinth; the sides of the basin are vertical and appear decorated with blind arcades [cf. Pevsner & Cherry above]. The font shows overall damage consistent with long exposure to the elemnts, most of the carving hardly visible anymore. The wooden font cover appears modern. Other Purbeck fonts in this county listed in Drake (2002) for Amesbury, Codford St Peter, Downton, Maiden Bradle, Rushall and Steeple Langford.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 571068 5659505

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Number of Pieces: seven?
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and square, with metal decoration

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-10-11 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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"]
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831