Calstone / Calstone Wellington
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 31 August 2008]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com] [accessed 31 August 2008]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font partially visible on the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by Duncan & Mandy Ball [http://www.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_calstonewell.htm] [accessed 31 August 2008]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font partially visible on the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by Duncan & Mandy Ball [http://www.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_calstonewell.htm] [accessed 31 August 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13727CAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (early?), Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Calstone Wellington, Wiltshire, SN11 8PZ
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A4, 5 km ESE of Calne
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Calne
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 17, 2002): "Calstone church was standing in 1301 and was served by a rector.[...] The church of St. Mary, so called in 1763, [...] was rebuilt in the mid 15th century"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. A later font is noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. C18. Simple, octagonal, with part-fluting." The present font at St. Mary's consists of an octagonal basin decorated with ribbed patterns at the protruding upper rim and around the underbowl, the panels of the sides with pairs of stylised blind arches or windows; it is raised on a plain octagonal pedestal that splays at the bottom, and a rectangular plinth. The wooden font is octagonal, with a scroll and acorn finial.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to Duncan and Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, for their photographs of church and modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 572149 5696144
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.411915, -1.962567
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 24′ 42.89″ N, 1° 57′ 45.24″ W
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 158