Dilton Marsh
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Scene Description: exterior of the Holy Trinity Church, Dilton Marsh
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Buck (1951)
Image Source: B&W photograph by Buck (1951)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13760DIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1844?
Font Century and Period/Style: 19th century (mid?), Victorian
Workshop/Group/Artisan: [cf. FontNotes]
Cognate Fonts: designed after the font at Thornbury, Gloucestershire
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Address: High Street, Dilton Marsh, Wiltshire, BA13 4BU
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km NNE of Warminster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Westbury
Font Notes:
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Buck (1951) notes that the design of this font "follows that at Thornbury, Glos" [Gloucestershire]. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Square, imitation Norman, presented by the architect" [i.e., T.H. Wyatt]. The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 8, 1965) notes the Holy Trinity Church in Ditton Marsh, as well as an earlier church in Dilton proper: "The church of St. Mary, Dilton, is a small building [...] The architectural features of the church date from the 15th century onwards, but doubtless the structure is more ancient"; the VCH entry does not mention a font in it and we do not have any information on its original font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 554857 5677809
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood and metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: round wooden platform on which metal scrolls and Latin cross finial; contemporary with the font?
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part III", LIV, CXCV (December 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 192-209; p. 199 and p. X.53
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 217