Inglesham

Image copyright © Jonathan Billinger, 2007
CC-BY-SA-3.0
Results: 6 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - 8
BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
view of church exterior - south view
view of font and cover
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
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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