Upton Lovell / Opetone / Upton Noble
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10192LOV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Augustine of Canterbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Augustine of Canterbury
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A36, about 10 km SSE of Warminster [it is near the border with Somerset and does at times appear under that county]
Additional Comments: recycled font? the base appears of a later date or re-finished
Font Notes:
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Phelps (1836) reports a font of the Norman era in this church. Noted in the Handbook for travellers… (1869) as a circular font; no date is given for the font, but the date of ca. 1430 is suggested for other work in this church. Baptismal font consisting of a round basin, somewhere between hemispherical and egg-cup shaped, plain but for two incised parallel lines at the upper basin side, where the surface has been polished; the rest of the bowl and underbowl has been left rough, showing the chisel marks; the block of the basin includes the beginning of the base; the base, a plain cylindrical pedestal on a circular moulded lower base, is probably of a later date, unless it has been re-finished. The flat wooden font cover is also modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photograph of this font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
- Murray, John, A handbook for travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, London: John Murray, 1869, p. 136 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=hYEOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA369&lpg=PA369&dq=hemyock+church+font&source=bl&ots=wV68KRXFhH&sig=_-CnLgSLeYKjq8YBQMsxSQrjbvA&hl=en&ei=1IKRSeTLOojKNO3c_YkM&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPR1,M1] [accessed 10 February 2009]
- Phelps, William (Revd.), The History and Antiquities of Somersetshire; being a general and parochial survey [...] [vol. 1], London: Printed for the author , by J. B. Nichols and Son, 1836, vol. 1: 274 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=IAQVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA589&lpg=PA589&dq=butleigh+church+font&source=bl&ots=YU0c4LRPgk&sig=u9wX07aEBfabcQ5OyhJwDvZHqXg&hl=en&ei=NcH9SYDHKY-UMtOp0c8E&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#PPP7,M1] [accessed 3 May 2009]