Alton Priors / Awltone
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2015
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2015 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - northwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2015 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13681ALT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [redundant since 1973]
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Alton Priors, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SN8 4LB
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A361, 11 km E of Devizes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Swanborough [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Elstub and Everleigh
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Alton [Priors] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU1162/alton-priors/] [accessed 22 July 2015], but it mentions neither cleric not church in it. The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 11, 1980) notes: "In the 12th century there were churches at East Overton, Fyfield, and Alton Priors. [...] The chancel arch survives from the 12th-century church. [...] restoration of the whole building was undertaken c. 1960 and c. 1976. [...] The church was declared redundant in 1973 and in 1977 was in the care of the Redundant Churches Fund." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this church. The present baptismal font consists of an octagonal basin with deeply carved quatrefoil panels on the sides, raised on a moulded octagonal pedestal. Octagonal wooden cover of low pyramidal shape; also modern. [NB: we have no information of the earlier font of this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 580458 5690277
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.358056, -1.844444
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 21′ 29″ N, 1° 50′ 40″ W
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.