Ebbesbourne Wake / Ebbelburn Wak / Ebbesborne Wake / Ebesborne Wake / Eblesborne / Eblesburna

Noted in Buck (1951) as one in a group of Norman square fonts dating between 1130 and 1200, including those at North Tidworth, Codford St. Peter, Ebbesbourne Wake, Steeple Langford, Amesbury, Maiden Bradley, Downton and Dinton. Buck (ibid.) describes the font and decoration on it: "West. two four-leaf designs, between which is a centre panel containing two circular ornaments, possible representing flowers; North, two rows of three semicircles with the curved sides facing each other; East, an arcade of seven round arches in relief and without capitals or bases; South, a square flower on the left, four circular ornaments in a square on the right, and between these in the centre a narrow panel enclosing a tree. The South side is cracked, and broken where the cover fastenings were formerly." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Square, Norman, of Purbeck marble, with tapering sides. Against the sides the usual blank arches, but also scallops and big leaves." The Victoria County History *(Witlshire, vol. 13, 1987) notes: "church, called St. Jonhn's in 1763 [...] and later dedicated to St. John the Baptist, [...] The nave and chancel, built perhaps c. 1300, are unusually wide. The tower, of ashlar, was added probably in the early 16th century. In 1874 the church was restored [...] registers of births and baptisms and of deaths and burials from 1653"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish.