Cricklade No. 2

Image copyright © David Tetlow, 2008
Permission received (e-mail of 20 Dec 2008)
Results: 4 records
B01: design element - motifs - moulding
1081219017
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
1081219017
view of church exterior - southeast view
N081219020
view of church interior - chancel arch
1081219016
INFORMATION
FontID: 13757CRI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located about half way (13 kms) up the A419 from Swindon to Cirencester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century -- 19th-century [stem only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Tetlow, of http://tetlow.screaming.net, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in Buck (1951): "The bowl of this font is original E[arly] E[nglish] work and has mouldings on the side; it probably dates from that time when the lower part of the tower and the north and south aisles were added to the original Norman church. Buckler's drawing in 1810 shows that it was then mounted on a centre stem having mouldings at the bottom, but when the church was restored in 1862 this stem was discarded, and the bowl was mounted on three short pillars with moulded capitals and bases and raised on a tall circular base with moulded sides. Provision for draining the water appears to have had been overlooked, and this is now done by means of a piece of lead piping bent roughly to the shape of the lower portion of the font [...] it is probable [...] that the rim of the bowl has been cut down" [NB: Buck mentions 'Mr. Ponting' as the original source of the idea of the rim having been trimmed; it probably refers to C.E. Pnting, architect]. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Circular; C13. An unusual piece with many-moulded base, a Victorian shaft, and a moulded bowl." The wooden cover is flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern. [NB: the original Norman church may have had an earlier font, but there appears to be no record of it]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 71.25 cm*
Basin Depth: 20 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 92.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Buck (1951), who thinks, after C.E. Ponting, that the bowl was cut down at the rim]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part II", LIV, CXCIV (June 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 19-35; r["References"]
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912