South Marston
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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11872MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1140s?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene, South Marston
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Church Address: Church Farm Ln, South Marston, Swindon SN3 4SR, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1793 827021
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
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 Notes:
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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]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, 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; p. 299