Burton Nettleton / Niteletone

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design element - motifs - moulding

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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design element - motifs - sawtooth

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design element - motifs - scallop - trumpet scallop

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design element - patterns - scalloped

two rows [cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: two rows [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2014
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view of church exterior - north porch and portal

Source caption: "The rich 15th Century (Perpendicular) (1460) vaulting of the north porch of the 12 - 15th Century Church of St. Mary's, Burton/ Nettleton, 03/14. Thr door, handle and escutcheon are original. The key is a foot long! A Stoup for Holy Water is on the left wall."
Scene Description: Source caption: "The rich 15th Century (Perpendicular) (1460) vaulting of the north porch of the 12 - 15th Century Church of St. Mary's, Burton/ Nettleton, 03/14. Thr door, handle and escutcheon are original. The key is a foot long! A Stoup for Holy Water is on the left wall."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2014
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view of church exterior - northeast view

Source caption: "The 12th-15th Century Church of St. Mary's Burton, Nettleton, 03/14. Every architectural style of Gothic architecture is thus represented! Note subsidence of north aisle and porch. The aisle and nave are 14th Century Decorated, the porch 15th Perpendicular."
Scene Description: Source caption: "The 12th-15th Century Church of St. Mary's Burton, Nettleton, 03/14. Every architectural style of Gothic architecture is thus represented! Note subsidence of north aisle and porch. The aisle and nave are 14th Century Decorated, the porch 15th Perpendicular."
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view of church exterior - southwest view

Source caption: "The 12th-15th Century Church of St. Mary's Burton, Nettleton, 03/14. Every architectural style of Gothic architecture is thus represented! The nave is 14th Century Decorated, the tower 15th Century Perpendicular."
Scene Description: Source caption: "The 12th-15th Century Church of St. Mary's Burton, Nettleton, 03/14. Every architectural style of Gothic architecture is thus represented! The nave is 14th Century Decorated, the tower 15th Century Perpendicular."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2014
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view of church exterior - west portal

Source caption: "The West Doorway in the tower of 12th-15th Century Church of St. Mary's Burton, Nettleton, 03/14. The stone hood of the doorway effectively forms a small, shallow porch."
Scene Description: Source caption: "The West Doorway in the tower of 12th-15th Century Church of St. Mary's Burton, Nettleton, 03/14. The stone hood of the doorway effectively forms a small, shallow porch."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2014
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view of church interior - looking east

Source caption: "The 14th Century (Decorated) nave and north aisle (remodelled in 1460) of the Century Church of St. Mary's Burton, Nettleton, 03/14. Some sources say the arches date from 1460 and placed on restored 12th Century Norman columns, but other sources state the columns also date from 1460 and are merely copies. Note the arches and columns lean due to subsidence at some distant time in the past. View is towards the chancel." -- the old font is partially visible in the bottom-right corner of the image
Scene Description: Source caption: "The 14th Century (Decorated) nave and north aisle (remodelled in 1460) of the Century Church of St. Mary's Burton, Nettleton, 03/14. Some sources say the arches date from 1460 and placed on restored 12th Century Norman columns, but other sources state the columns also date from 1460 and are merely copies. Note the arches and columns lean due to subsidence at some distant time in the past. View is towards the chancel." -- the old font is partially visible in the bottom-right corner of the image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2014
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view of font and cover

Source caption: "The 12th Century (Norman) font of the Church of St. Mary's Burton, Nettleton, 03/14."
Scene Description: Source caption: "The 12th Century (Norman) font of the Church of St. Mary's Burton, Nettleton, 03/14."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hugh Llewelyn, 2014
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INFORMATION

FontID: 13726BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Hill, Burton Nettleton, Chippenham SN14 7LS, UK -- Tel.: (01454) 218072
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located on B4039, just off (S) the M4, 13 km NW of Chippenham, about 20 km E of Bristol
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol
Historical Region: Hundred of Thorngrove
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, by the S doorway
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Church Notes: St Mary's was the original church of Burton; the parishes of Nettleton and Burton merged in 1934; Nettleton had a Baptist chapel in 1823 but not earlier church is known in it
Font Notes:
There is an entry for this Nettletone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST8178/nettleton/] [accessed 26 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Buck (1950) groups the font here as one of a group of "Middle Norman circular Fonts, c. 1100-1150" in Wiltshire. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Circular, Norman, fluted below, with scales above." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST8159579374] notes: "Anglican parish church, C13, C14 and C15 [...] Fine Norman circular font fluted below, scales above and upper zigzag band." Baptismal font consisting of a round basin with tapering sides that are decorated with a band of saw-tooth motif below the rim, and two rows of scallop pattern below; the third row of scallops is of the 'trumpet' variety, with a moulding delimiting the basin; raised on a plain and broad cylindrical pedestal base, the lower base moulded; on a small quadrangular plinth. The font cover consists of a round wooden platform with a stylsed motif in metal that harks back at the Jacobean scrolls of the 16th century; probably Victorian, though.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.513, -2.26641
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 30′ 46.8″ N, 2° 15′ 59.08″ W
UTM: 30U 550906 5707130

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: not lead lined, according to Buck (1950)
Rim Thickness: 8.75 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 77.5 cm*
Basin Depth: 30 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 87.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Buck (1950)]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood and metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part I", LIII, CXCIII (December 1950), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1950, pp. 458-470; p. 467-468
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912