Heddington
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Scene Description: the re-carved font
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior - west tower
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13774HED
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only] [re-cut ca. 1840?] / 19th century, Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: "church of ST. ANDREW, so called in 1491" [cf. VCH entry in bib.]
Church Address: Heddington, Wiltshire, SN11 0PG
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km S of Calne
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Calne
Additional Comments: altered font / composite font / re-cut ca. 1840?
Font Notes:
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Buck (1951) writes: "The font of Norman character dates from the restoration of the church in 1840". Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Norman bowl and shaft of 1840. The bowl is decorated with blank arches which be altogether an embellishment of 1840". The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 17, 2002), however, states that the font is a re-cut: "In 1840-1 the church was repaired and reseated and its font was recut in Romanesque style." The VCH entry (ibid.) also notes: "Heddington church was standing c. 1130 [...] The church was apparently rebuilt in the 13th century."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 569412 5694334
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and cake-shaped, on a round platform; dove finial
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. 201
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 266