Chute

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B01: design element - motifs - zigzag

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan Simons, [unknown]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Aidan Simons; in The St. Nicholas Center [/www.stnicholascenter.org/galleries/gazetteer/1300/6/] [accessed 22 February 2012]

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B02: design element - motifs - chevron

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B03: design element - motifs - diamond or lozenge

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B04: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: separating the three bands of decoration on the basin side

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view of church exterior - east view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Talbot, 2009

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view of font

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view of font

Scene Description: ca. 1806

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Image Source: 1806 watercolour by John Buckler (1770-1851) in Wiltshire Treasures [http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/museums/] [accessed 24 February 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13750CHU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Malthouse Lane, Chute, Wiltshire SP11 9EN
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 5 km NE of Ludgershall
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Kinwardstone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only?], Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: "church of ST. NICHOLAS, so called in 1405" [cf. VCH entry in bib.]
There is a 1806 watercolour of this font by John Buckler (1770-1851). The font is classed in Buck (1950) as one of a group of "Middle Norman circular Fonts, c. 1100-1150" in Wiltshire. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Circular, Norman, with rather disorderly decoration of triangles, lozenges, etc." The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 16, 1999) notes: "Chute church was first mentioned in 1320 [...] and may have been standing long before. [...] [it] almost completely rebuilt in the period 1868-72. [...] A 14th-century piscina was reset in the chancel. [...] Registrations of baptisms [...] begin in 1581 and are complete." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish. The British Listed Buildings database [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-312298-church-of-st-nicholas-chute] [accessed 22 February 2012] reports: "Font at west end, C12 conical bowl with crude zig-zag and chevron decoration. Carved oak pyramidal cover of C19."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 599643 5682217

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-02-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part I", LIII, CXCIII (December 1950), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1950, pp. 458-470; r["References"]
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912