Highworth / Wrde

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Results: 11 records

B01: coat of arms

Scene Description: the shield on the left: "a chevron between three saltires" [cf. Font notes]

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B02: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a circle

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B03: design element - architectural - buttress - 8

Scene Description: running down the underbowl and the pedestal base

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B03: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a circle

Scene Description: another side with a similar motif

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the lower base

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UB01: design element - architectural - arch - trefoiled - pinnacled and crocketed

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view of church exterior - southwest end

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view of church exterior - tympanum

Scene Description: the tympanum from the Norman building?

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font is visible on the right, by the south door

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the cover is practically buried in the flower arrangement

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13775HIG
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 10 km NNE of Swindon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century (mid?) [basin and stem only] -- 12th century [lower base] [composite font?], Late Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross, of Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com], and to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, for their photographs of church and font
Described in Ponting (1899): "The font is handsome one of about the date of the tower [i.e., "shortly before the middle of the fifteenth century"]. It is octagonal, and has shields on two sides bearing arms, a chevron between three saltires". Described and illustrated in Buck (1951): "This font [...] dates from the middle of the fifteenth century when the tower of the church was rebuilt; but the square stone with worn ornaments on the top corners may well be the base of the font which was in the previous Norman church. The panels of the bowl are filled alternatively with quatrefoils and shields. The quatrefoil encloses a flower and is set square instead of vertical as in the fourteenth century". Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font.Perp[endicular], octagonal, with shields and quatrefoils." The font consists of an octagonal basin that fuses with the equally-shaped pedestal base via a curved underbowl, the buttresses of the basin corners continuing down on the sides of the stem; the panels of the basin sides are quadrangular, and contain shileds (some charged) and quatrefoils with inscribed tiny Tudor flowers alternately; the underbowl is graded; the sides of the stem are decorated with Gothic arches with crocketed pinnacles; the low end of the stem has a significant moulding; the lower base is quadrangular and the angles are modelled into spur-like endings. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat; appears modern.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat

REFERENCES

Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part III", LIV, CXCV (December 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 192-209; r["References"]
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912
Ponting, C.E., "Notes on churches visited in 1898", XXX, XCI, The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1899, pp. 169-197; r["References"]