Bishopstrow / Biscepes truue [diappeared?]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 10183BIS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Adhelm
Church Patron Saints: St. Adhelm
Church Location: Bishopstrow, Wiltshire, BA12
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 3 km SSE of Warminster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Warminster
Century and Period: , Early Medieval?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photograph of this font.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 8, 1965) notes: " the dedication of the church of Bishopstrow to St. Aldhelm is recorded as early as the 13th century, [...] and there is a possibility, discussed below, that a church of the Saxon period stood here until the 18th century. When the church is first mentioned c. 1120 [...] it had, therefore, probably long stood on a site used for Christian teaching since the early 8th century"; the VCH further notes that the present font dates from either 1840 or the 1876 restoration. The present font is octagonal. [NB: it is possible that the plinth may have belonged to an earlier font]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 559082 5671563
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-08-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.