Marlborough No. 2 / Merleberge

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view of basin

Scene Description: tracery decoration on the basin sides of the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2017 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Erroneously named "Marlborough, St Peter's Church." in the source caption; this is St Mary's church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 July 2008 by Przemysław Jahr [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marlborough_St_Peter.JPG] [accessed 11 November 2017]

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view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Norman west doorway of the parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Marlborough, Wiltshire".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 February 2015 by Poliphilo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary,_Marlborough,_West_door.JPG] [accessed 11 November 2017]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: only the tower is visible in the background

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2017 by Colin Smith

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2017 by Colin Smith

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view of font in context

Scene Description: despite the source caption statement, "The font isn't mentioned in the online sources I have consulted but it looks several centuries old", this font is probably a modern one

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 October 2011 by Brian Robert Marshall [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2632067] [accessed 11 November 2017]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2017 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 November 2017)

INFORMATION

FontID: 13700MAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Kingsbury Street, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 1JE, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Wiltshire, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the A346-A4 crossroads, 15 km SSE of Swindon

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury

Historical Region: Hundred of Selkley

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: 12thC Norman church built on site of earlier building; re-built 15th and 16thC; damaged in the 1642 wars, and in a fire in 1643; re-built 1873; restored 1950s

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Marlborough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU1869/marlborough/] [accessed 11 November 2017]; it mentions church lands and a church in it [probably a pre-Conquest church that later became St. Peter's]. The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine (vol. XIX, 1881: 20) reports on a visit by the members of the Society to the Upper School of Marlborough College, and to its Temporary Museum [sic] which displayed, among other objects of interest, "a stone font, by Mr. G. Harrison" [NB: there are no further particulars of the object given in the report, nor have we come across any other information on this font -- Pevsner & Cherry (1975) give particulars of the College and mention the Museum Block, but not the font noted in the WANHM above]. Buck (1951) mentions a 19th-century Gothic Revival font at Marlborough St. Peter's on which appear the symbols of the Evangelists [NB: we are not certain whether or not these two references are to the same font]. [cf. Index entry for Marlborough No. 1 for the font at St. Mary's]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.421858, -1.728858

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 25′ 18.69″ N, 1° 43′ 43.89″ W

UTM: 30U 588383 5697505

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

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"]