Liddington / Ledentone / Lyddington
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design element - motifs - zigzag
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design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet
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Image Source: photograph taken in December 2000 by Duncan & Mandy Ball
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view of church exterior - southwest 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 cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2000
Image Source: detail of a photograph taken in December 2000 by Duncan & Mandy Ball
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the cover only partially visible here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Buck, 1950
Image Source: B&W photograph in Buck (1950)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13785LID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
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 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."
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 589769 5709486
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.529342, -1.705877
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 31′ 45.63″ N, 1° 42′ 21.16″ W
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-. 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, p. 295