Wilcot

The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 10, 1975) notes: "A church (nova ecclesia) had been built at Wilcot by 1086, probably since the Conquest. [...] The church of Holy Cross [...] was built in the later 12th century, but only the chancel arch of that building survives. [...] The registers date from 1564 and are complete." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. Colin Younger's 'Stories of Burbage & its people' [http://www.burbage-wiltshire.co.uk/FHS/stories.htm] [accessed 30 August 2008] reproduces a 'Note concerning Burbage old Font Contributed by David White', in which there is mention of a disused font in a Wilcot garden: "I have obtained additional evidence from an aged man that Mr Gale, who had quite a hobby for collecting Ancient Fonts, used to use the old Font of Wilcot church as a flower pot in his kitchen garden: and that the font which is now in the garden of the Manor farm where he used to live, is not the Burbage Font but Wilcot Font". The present font is modern, probably of the 19th century, and consists of a square basin with tapering sides decorated with cross-in-a-circle motifs, raised on a cluster of five shafts and a rectangular plinth.