Fittleton
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B01: design element - motifs - piping
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2002 by Duncan & Mandy Ball
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2002 by Duncan & Mandy Ball
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2002 by Duncan & Mandy Ball
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view of font
![The font erroneously labeled in an 1805 watercolour by John Buckler (1770-1851) as being from Fittleton All Saints' [cf. FontNotes].](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/permission_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: The font erroneously labeled in an 1805 watercolour by John Buckler (1770-1851) as being from Fittleton All Saints' [cf. FontNotes].
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wiltshire Treasures, 2007
Image Source: erroneously labeled in an 1805 watercolour by John Buckler (1770-1851) as being from Fittleton All Saints' in the Wiltshire Historic Photograph Collection [http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/museums/imagesmain/WILTM/P51570.jpg] [accessed 22 February 2012]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2002
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2002 by Duncan & Mandy Ball
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13770FIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Chestnut Rise, Fittleton, Wiltshire, SP4 9PZ
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 6 km S of Upavon, 8 km N of Amesbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Elstub and Everleigh
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1100-1150?
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, for their photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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Classed in Buck (1950) as one of a group of "Middle Norman circular Fonts, c. 1100-1150" in Wiltshire: "Stem and base are modern". Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Circular, Norman, with plain sunk panels." The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 11, 1980) notes: "The church was valued at £10 in 1291. [...] The 12th-century bowl of the font [...] is not notably older than the earliest identifiable part of the structure, which is the 13th-century chancel arch." The basin is almost cylindrical, slightly tapered, with piping framing the panels on the sides; the round moulded base is modern, as are the circular plinth and the flat and round wooden cover. [NB: a different font is erroneously labeled in an 1805 watercolour by John Buckler (1770-1851) as being from Fittleton All Saints'].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 584299 5677907
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 85 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Buck (1950)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-01-27 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; p. 468
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912