Great Somerford / Broad Somerford / Somerford Magna / Somerford Mautravers
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B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a square - 8
![a later re-cut [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1080909006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: a later re-cut [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: photograph by Duncan & Mandy Ball [http://www.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_gsom_in.htm] [accessed 9 September 2008]
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BU01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
![a later re-cut [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1080909004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: a later re-cut [cf. Font notes]
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LB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: a later re-cut [cf. Font notes]
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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: a later re-cut [cf. Font notes]
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the re-cut font [cf. Font notes]
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view of stoup
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13773SOM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul [cf. FontNotes]
Church Location: Top Street, Great Somerford, Wiltshire, SN155JA
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SE of Malmesbury, 11 km NNE of Chippenham. 20 km W of Swindon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol
Historical Region: Hundred of Malmesbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end
Century and Period: 15th century [re-cut], Perpendicular [altered?]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, and to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for their photographs of church and font
Church Notes: "church of ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL, so called in 1494 (fn. 242) and 1763 (fn. 243) but St. Peter's in 1421" [cf. VCH entry in bib.]
Font Notes:
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Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with quatrefoils, entirely re-cut." The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 14, 1991) notes: "A church stood in Great Somerford in the late 12th century. [...] The late 12th century church was completely rebuilt between the later 14th and earlier 16th century [...] The church was restored in 1865"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish. The re-cut sides of the present font have floral motifs inscribed in quatrefoils, each within a square panel; there are arches carved on the tall underbowl chamfer, and there are arches also on the stem, as well as mouldings on the lower base; the inner well of the basin is lead-lined. There is a damaged wall-mounted stoup at the entrance; probably medieval as well.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 565602 5710617
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-02-15 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912