Sevenhampton nr. Swindon
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 31 January 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
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
INFORMATION
FontID: 11873SEV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: Sevenhampton, Wiltshire, SN6 7QA
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located about 5 km NE of Swindon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font.
Church Notes: Ian Fleming (1908-1964), stock-broker, journalist, intelligence officer and author of the James Bond character fame, is buried here
Font Notes:
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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].
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