Liddington / Ledentone / Lyddington

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Results: 7 records
design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet
design element - motifs - zigzag
view of church exterior - southwest view
view of font
view of font and cover
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 13785LID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SE of Swindon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Thornhill [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Kings bridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes. of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photograph of this church. We are also grateful to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, for their photographs of this font
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Liddington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU2081/liddington/] [accessed 21 July 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Buck (1950) includes a font here in a group of "Middle Norman circular Fonts, c. 1100-1150" in Wiltshire. Buck (ibid.) mentions a "tall modern octagonal cover" on the font. Noted in The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 9, 1970): "The church of Liddington is first mentioned in 1291 when it was valued for the taxation of Pope Nicholas. [...] A severe restoration of the church by C. E. Ponting in the late 19th century makes it difficult to distinguish how many of its features are original. [...] Most notable among the church furnishings is the circular font bowl of c. 1200 which has tapered sides and bands of pellet and zig-zag ornament." In Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Norman, of tub shape, with tapering sides. Top band of flat zigzag and pellet decoration."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.529342, -1.705877
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 31′ 45.63″ N, 1° 42′ 21.16″ W
UTM: 30U 589769 5709486
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: yes
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-09-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part I", LIII, CXCIII (December 1950), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1950, pp. 458-470; p. 468-469
Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part II", LIV, CXCIV (June 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 19-35; p. 20
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912