Inglesham

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B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Billinger, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 January 2007 by Jonathan Billinger [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/307515] [accessed 29 December 2008]

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Billinger, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 January 2007 by Jonathan Billinger [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/307515] [accessed 29 December 2008]

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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Billinger, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 January 2007 by Jonathan Billinger [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/307515] [accessed 29 December 2008]

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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13779ING
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Inglesham, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN6 7RD
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Locfated off the A361, 5 km NW of Highworth [borders with Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire [previously Berkshire]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol
Historical Region: was a detached part of Berkshire until 1844
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1468?
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
Church Notes: church has Anglo-Saxon origins (and a late-Saxon carving of a Madonna and Child) but most of the current structure was built ca. 1200
Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with quatrefoils." The font has a tallish wooded cover, an octagonal pyramid, chiefly plain but for rectangular panels on the lower volume and raised arrises; there is no finial (or it is now missing). [NB: the church goes back to the 11th century, but we have no information on the earlier font of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.6663, -1.7045
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 39′ 58.68″ N, 1° 42′ 16.2″ W
UTM: 30U 589595 5724719

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912