Bishopstone nr. Salisbury

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B01: design element - motifs - tracery

re-tooled / re-cut
Scene Description: re-tooled / re-cut
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph September 2004 by Duncan & Mandy Ball [www.oodwooc.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 February 2009 by Trish Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1144981] [accessed 26 January 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - south door

with the re-tooled / re-cut font at the opposite end
Scene Description: with the re-tooled / re-cut font at the opposite end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2007 by Trish Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/504201] [accessed 26 January 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

the re-ttoled / re-cut font in the north bank of benches
Scene Description: the re-ttoled / re-cut font in the north bank of benches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2o January 2011 by Trish Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2247127] [accessed 26 January 2012
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font

re-tooled / re-cut
Scene Description: re-tooled / re-cut
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph September 2004 by Duncan & Mandy Ball [www.oodwooc.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

the re-tooled / re-cut font
Scene Description: the re-tooled / re-cut font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2007 by Trish Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/504224] [accessed 26 January 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 13740BIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Bishopstone, Wiltshire, SP5 4AS
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 7 km SW of Salisbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbry
Historical Region: Hundred of Downton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, towards the W end of the nave, N side
Century and Period: 15th century [re-tooled / re-carved], Perpendicular [altered?]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, for their photograph of this font
Font Notes:
The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 11, 1980) notes: "Bishopstone was probably served from Downton in 1086. [...] It is likely that a parish church was built soon afterwards and Bishopstone detached from Downton, but the first evidence of Bishopstone church is from its 12th-century masonry. [...] registers of baptisms, beginning in 1636 [...] The church was restored in the period 1836–9"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font.Octagonal, Perp[endicular], all re-tooled. With St. Andrew's crosses, cusped." Both the basin and stem sides are decorated with newly-carved tracery, and the underbowl and lower base are moulded.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.037708, -1.881144
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 2′ 15.75″ N, 1° 52′ 52.12″ W
UTM: 30U 578445 5654614

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-01-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912