Steeple Ashton

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the Victorian (?) replacement font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12018STE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Street, Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire, BA14 6EW
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A350, 5 km E of Trowbridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Whorwellsdown
Century and Period: , Medieval
The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 8, 1965) notes: "A church at Steeple Ashton is first mentioned in 1252, in terms which imply that there had long been one in the village [...] The dedication is first recorded in 1281 [...] The tower is thought to be of the early 15th century [...] The font, which stands in the chapel south of the tower at the west end of the south aisle, formerly called the Beach chapel, was given by Richard Crawley, vicar 1828–69, in memory of his mother. [...] It replaced a hexagonal font with quatrefoil panels." The accompanying footnote in the VCH entry refers to "Soc. Antiq. Jackson MSS. Drawing of font." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. 1841; imitation Perp[endicular]." Octagonal baptismal font in a Victorian rendition of the Perpendicular style, even though the motifs and proportions are mostly those of the older period. Ditto the pyramidal wooden cover.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 559929 5685762

LID INFORMATION

Date: Victorian? / 19th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-01-17 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912