Castle Eaton
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
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Results: 13 records
B01: design element - motifs - vine - acanthus?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross, in Britain Express [http://www.britainexpress.com/counties/wiltshire/churches/Castle-Eaton/index.htm] [accessed 21 November 2008]
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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding - 2
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BBU01: design element - motifs - moulding
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the lower base
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding - 2
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Beek, 2005
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view of church exterior - south door
Scene Description: ca. 1170?
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view of church exterior - south door - detail
Scene Description: left side: dragon head
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view of church exterior - south door - detail
Scene Description: right side: dragon head
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church exterior - west tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
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view of church interior - looking east
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11989CAS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A419, NNW of Swindon, 6 km ENE of Cricklade
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1160-1170?
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross, of Britain Express Ltd. [www.britainexpress.com], and to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for their photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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Described in Ponting (1899): "The font is very little later than this i.e., than ca. 1170]. It has a circular bowl 2ft. 6in. in diameter, with mouldings on the upper and lower edges, and a band of very early conevntionalised foliage carried around the middle. This is, at present, supported only by a circulat shaft of 9in. in diameter, with base moulds stanting on a moulded base; the shaft is out of all proportion to the bowl, but there were formerly four smaller shafts surrounding this. A close examination shows that the bowl and the base are not parts of the same font, although they each had the same arrangement of a central and four surrounding shafts, for the spacing of the small shafts on the base was 11in. from centre to centre, and that of the bowl 16in." This latter point is also made by Buck (1951), who concludes that "this base coul not have been made for this bowl". Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Norman, drum-shaped. With a big leaf trail." Baptismal font consisting of a cylindrical basin decorated with a running acanthus (?) vine set between parallel mouldings; plain round stem and moulded lower base with round protrusions at 90-degree angles. Wooden font cover, probably oak, flat but thick and with a crenellated upper edge; metal ornamentation on the top with ring handle; date unknown.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part II", LIV, CXCIV (June 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 19-35; p. 23, 25
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912
Ponting, C.E., "Notes on churches visited in 1898", XXX, XCI, The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1899, pp. 169-197; p. 188