Sevenhampton nr. Swindon

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view of font and cover

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 31 January 2008]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11873SEV

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James, Sevenhampton

Church Patron Saint(s): St. James

Church Notes: Ian Fleming (1908-1964), stock-broker, journalist, intelligence officer and author of the James Bond character fame, is buried here

Church Address: Roves Ln, Sevenhampton, Swindon SN6 7QA, United Kingdom

Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off the B4000, about 5 km NE of Swindon

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol

Additional Comments: disappeared font? the earlier font(s) of this church

Font Notes: Click to view

The baptismal font now in St. James' is Victorian and consists of an octagonal basin with protruding angles decorated with colonnettes and raised on a broad shaft at the centre with four angle colonnettes on an octagonal lower base and an octagonal plinth; a quatrefoil window appears on each of the sides of the basin [NB: the fabric of the building may go back as far as the 11th century, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church].

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 589744 5718706

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with the eight extra lobes to match the protruding colonnettes of the basin sides; with metal decorations and handle