Cherhill
Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2002
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Results: 6 records
B02: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 16
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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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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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CR01: design element - motifs - moulding
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 - southeast 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 east
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 font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2002
Image Source: photograph taken February 2002 by Duncan & Mandy Ball
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13728CHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Location: The Street, Cherhill, Wiltshire, SN11 8UZ
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the A4, 4 km E of Calne
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Calne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century [re-tooled?], Decorated [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, for their photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: "church of ST. JAMES, so called in 1405" [cf. VCH entry in bib.]
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 17, 2002) notes: "Cherhill church had been built by the 12th century [...] and was dependent on Calne church as a chapel. [...] The church was restored in 1863 [...] Registers of baptisms survive from 1690"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish. The present baptismal font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with pairs of trefoiled windows, the underbowl with a graded chamfer on the upper half, the lower half plain, tapering to a centre ring moulding at the top of the otherwise plain octagonal pedestal base; the polygonal plinth appears modern, as does the flat octagonal wooden cover; probably Victorian. [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 573015 5696684
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-02-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.