All Cannings / Allcannings
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2012
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B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a square - 4
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1090906012_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2002
Image Source: photograph by Duncan & Mandy Ball
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
B02: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - in a square - 4
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: one at each end of the stem, and on lower base
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, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2012 by John Wilkes
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view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2002
Image Source: Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2002 [www.ood.wooc.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2012 by John Wilkes
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - capital
Scene Description: of the Norman church?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of basin and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Buck, 1951
Image Source: B&W photograph in Buck (1951)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10204CAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [St, Anne's -- cf. FontNotes]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints [St. Anne -- cf. Font Notes]
Church Address: The Street / School Lane, All Cannings, Wiltshire, SN10 3PF
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A342, 6-7 km E of Devizes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Swanborough
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Norman church here)
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Buck (1951): "The octagonal bowl is panelled with quatrefoils enclosing alternatively flowers and shields. The shields are now plain but, no doubt, formerly had coats of arms painted on them [...] The octagonal cover is well carved and bears on the top of six of the conical panels the inscription --T.M. 1633-- one letter or figure on each panel." The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 10, 1975) notes: "A church stood at All Cannings from the early 13th century. [...] Some doubt surrounds the dedication of All Cannings church. [...] It was called All Saints in 1492, possibly following the name of the village. The dedication was afterwards to St. Anne, perhaps following the dedication of the chantry chapel in the church, but was again to All Saints from about 1928 [...] The oldest features are late Norman [...] The church contains a carved octagonal font of the 15th century with a 17th-century cover." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular] with quatrefoils enclosing shields and flowers. Font cover. Of Jacobean type, simple, dated 1633." [NB: we have no information on the original font of the earlier Norman church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, for their photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 576620 5688210
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: letters and figures
Inscription Location: on the font cover
Inscription Text: "T.M. 1633"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1633
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part III", LIV, CXCV (December 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 192-209; p. 192 and pl. VII.42
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 85