Wanborough nr. Swindon / Wodnesborough

Drawing of a font in the Harvey Pridham Drawings of English Fonts (MS 56). [Folder Number, Item Description]. University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept., done by Harvey Pridham in March 1888 accompanied by the following description: "All circular except square foot. Irregular, cir: bowl, no lead, sides same rake, 14 1/2 deep 3 1/8 margin. This font has been pronounced Saxon as well as its next neighbour, Liddington - though the reasons are not very apparent. Position, on right, entering by N. porch, in N. aisle. Modern cover." Noted in the Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 9, 1970): "The church of Wanborough with its tithes and some land attached to it was among those granted by St. Osmund to Salisbury Chapter in 1091 [...] the only survivals from the earlier building are the Norman font and some re-used stones in the walls of the nave". Noted in the Upper Wanborough Conservation Area Appraisal [http://www.swindon.gov.uk/upper_wanborough1com-2.pdf] [accessed : "The font is Norman, cut from a single piece of stone." There are two fonts in this church: one consists of an octagonal basin raised on a central shaft and four outer colonnettes, the latter in ochre marble, on an octagonal base; the font is of the 19th century, Victorian; the other font , a bucket-shaped basin raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base and a quadrangular lower base, must be the one mentioned in the sources above. This font, if Norman, has undergone much re-cutting and repairs, to the extent that, other than the upper part of the basin, it is difficult to tell how much of it is original. The font cover, round and flat, is dated by a dedicatory label to ca. 1977.