South Marston
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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding
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BBU01: design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11872MAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A420, 6 km NE of Swindon [NB: South Marston is often placed in Berkshire/Oxfordshire, as it is closed to its border]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1140s?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "Font probably Norman; a cone with a small base-moulding and a bead round the upper edge." [NB: the county is given as Berkshire in this source; South Marston is located near the border with what is now Oxfordshire, but was until 1974 Berkshire]. Goblet-shaped baptismal font mounted on a squat base; pyramidal wooden cover with crenellated lower edge and gables with motifs, modern. [NB: the earliest part of the church, the nave, is said to go back to the 1140s]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: goblet-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
"Church notes, chiefly in Berks, Wilts, and Oxford, with a few in Somerset and Gloucestershire", 44, Archaeological Journal, 1887, pp. 43-50; 185-193; 291-303; 397-402; r["References"]