All Cannings / Allcannings

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B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a square - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: photograph by Duncan & Mandy Ball

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B02: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - in a square - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of basin and cover

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

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2012 by John Wilkes

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - capital

Scene Description: of the Norman church?

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2012 by John Wilkes

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view of font cover

Image Source: Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2002 [www.ood.wooc.co.uk]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10204CAN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [St, Anne's -- cf. FontNotes]

Church Patron Saints: All Saints [St. Anne -- cf. FontNotes]

Church Location: The Street / School Lane, All Cannings, Wiltshire, SN10 3PF

Country Name: England

Location: Wiltshire, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the A342, 6-7 km E of Devizes

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury

Historical Region: Hundred of Swanborough

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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]

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-. Accessed: 2012-01-24 00:00:00. 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; r["References"]

Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912