Aldbourne / Aldeborne

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design element - motifs - diamond or lozenge - in a square - 8

Image Source: digital photograoh taken 28 February 2020 by Colin Smith

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograoh taken 28 February 2020 by Colin Smith

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: at the lower base end

Image Source: digital photograoh taken 28 February 2020 by Colin Smith

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 February 2011 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital photograoh taken 28 February 2020 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph in http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getchurch.php?id=827 [accessed 10 August 2008]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 February 2011 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: notice the earlier [ca. 1951?] plinth

Image Source: digial image of a B&W photograph in Buck (1951)

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view of font and cover - west side

Image Source: digital photograoh taken 28 February 2020 by Colin Smith

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13680ALD

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael [pre-15th cent. it was dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene]

Church Location: 1 Crooked Corner, Aldbourne, Marlborough SN8 2EL, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Wiltshire, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B4192, 9 km SE of Swindon, 10 km NE of Marlborough

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury

Historical Region: Hundred of Selkley

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century (mid?) [re-cut?] / 17th century(mid?), Perpendicular [altered?]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Wiltshire County Council Libraries & Heritage, to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to Colin Smith for their photographs of church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Aldbourne [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SU2675/aldbourne/] [accessed 2 August 2020]; it reports "1 church. 2.0 church lands" in it. Described and illustrated in Buck (1951): "The font dates from the middle of the fifteenth century when the church was altered and the present tower built. It is octagonal and in each of the side panels of the bowl is a lozenge ornament. This is an uncommon alternative to the usual quatrefoil." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Octagonal with lozenges on square panels, most probably of the 1660s." The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 12, 1983) notes: "There was a church belonging to Aldbourne manor in 1086. [...] By the mid 12th century a church with an aisled nave and perhaps a central tower had been built. [...] church of St. Michael, so called in the 15th century but perhaps earlier known as St. Mary Magdalene's"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. The baptismal font consists of an octagonal basin adorned with square panels with inscribed large diamond motifs; the underbowl has graded moulding at the top and tapers in to match the octagonal pedestal base, itself decorated with a ring moulding [NB: the 15th-century basin is claimed to have been re-cut into this shape in the 1660s]; moulded lower base. Octagonal wooden cover, flat, with metal decoration and ring handle. [NB: the Aldbourne Community Website [www.aldbourne.org] [accessed 3 September 2008] notes "Correspondence relating to the removal of the font from Aldbourne and the subsequent exchange with Chilton Foliat" -- this appears to be related to the font at Southwick as well -- cf. Index entries for Chilton Foliat and Southwick]. [NB: the church is noted in the Domesday Book and there was a Norman church here, but we have no information on the earlier font(s)].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.48077, -1.621401

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 28′ 50.77″ N, 1° 37′ 17.05″ W

UTM: 30U 595731 5704192

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-02-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part III", LIV, CXCV (December 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 192-209; r["References"]

Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912