Heytesbury No. 2 / Haytchbury / Hegtredesbyri / Hestrebe
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Font, The Church of St Peter and St Paul [...] The coloured marble font dates from the Butterfield restoration of 1864 to 1867."
INFORMATION
FontID: 10188HEY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 5 km SE of Warminster
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 19th century, Victorian
Font Notes:
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The Handbook for travellers… (1869) reports this church re-opened in 1867 after the restoration by Butterfield: "A new font was given by Rev. R. Beadon"; there is no mention of the whereabouts of the font from the old church that had, according to this same source, been made collegiate by Jocelyn Bishop of Sarum, ca. 1165. The present font in this church [cf. Index entry for Heytesbury No. 2] dates from the 'over-restoration' -as Pevsner (1975) describes it- by Butterfield in 1865. Octagonal baptismal font from the refurbishing of this church by William Butterfield, the Victorian architect. It is a rather awkward object, the octagonal basin decorated with a band of zig-zag around its middle and an inscription below, round pegs issuing from the underbowl to match the round colonnettes of the base; thick central shaft inside the circle of colonnettes. Low pyramidal font cover, wooden and eight-sided. [cf. Index entry for Heytesbury No. 1 for the earlier font of this church]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869