Berwick Bassett / Barwick-Bassett

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 8

Image Source: photograph by Duncan & Mandy Ball [http://www.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_berbassett_in.htm] [accessed 11 August 2008]

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B02: design element - motifs - leaf - stiff-leaf

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: photograph by Duncan & Mandy Ball [http://www.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_berbassett_in.htm] [accessed 11 August 2008]

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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: photograph by Duncan & Mandy Ball [http://www.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_berbassett_in.htm] [accessed 11 August 2008]

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photography by John Wilkes [allthecotwolds.com]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the font is partially visible on the foreground, right-hand side

Image Source: photograph by Duncan & Mandy Ball [http://www.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_berbassett_in.htm] [accessed 11 August 2008]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photography by John Wilkes [allthecotwolds.com]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: B&W photograph in Buck (1951)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13685BER

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Berwick Bassett, Wiltshire SN4 9NQ

Country Name: England

Location: Wiltshire, South West

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A4361, 3 km N of Avebury, 12 km SSW of Swindon

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury

Historical Region: Hundred of Calne

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century, Early English

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to Mandy & Duncan Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, for their photographs of church and font

Church Notes: "church of ST. NICHOLAS, so called in 1331" [cf. VCH entry in bib.]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Buck (1951): "Octagonal bowl tapering downwards slightly and having on each side a trefoil-headed arch with unusual ornaments of foliage, the columns supporting the arches bieng on the angles of the bowl. The stem is plain octagonal and tapers downwards to a modern octagonal base." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. E[arly] E[nglish], octagonal, with trefoiled arches on colonnettes and sprays of stiff-leaf emanating from the l[eft] and r[ighht] from each of the little capitals." The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 17, 2002) notes: "Berwick Bassett church was built between c. 1199 and 1221.[...] The present chancel was standing in the 13th century [...] "13th-century font". The Churches Conservation Trust page [http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/content.php?nID=11&churchID=18] [accessed 11 August 2008] notes: "this modest church is essentially 14th century in origin, although the font suggests an earlier structure". The font consists of an octagonal basin of tapering sides decorated with trefoil-headed arches, the columns that support the arches of the bilnd arcade sprouting stiff-leaf motif; the panels are moulded all around; the underbowl is very tall and tapering, totally plain, becoming the facto the pedestal of the font; the octagonal lower base appears modern; the whole is raised on an octagonal plinth. Round and flat wooden cover, with metal reinforcements and ring handle; appears 17th-century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.460833, -1.859722

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 27′ 39″ N, 1° 51′ 35″ W

UTM: 30U 579216 5701690

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-08-11 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part II", LIV, CXCIV (June 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 19-35; r["References"]

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