Malmesbury No. 2

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design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: among the lower ends of the flutes

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 January 2018 by Colin Smith

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: photograph taken in 2000 by Duncan & Mandy Ball

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design element - patterns - fluted

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 January 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - south view

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

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view of font

Scene Description: the replacement base is a later date than the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 January 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover

Image Source: photograph taken in 2000 by Duncan & Mandy Ball

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13791MAL

Church/Chapel: Abbey Church of St. Peter and St. Paul [later Parish Church]

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: Gloucester St, Malmesbury SN16 9BA, UK -- Tel.: +44 1666 826666

Country Name: England

Location: Wiltshire, South West

Directions to Site: Located 15 km N of Chippenham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol

Historical Region: Hundred of Malmesbury

Font Location in Church: Inside the Abbey, just outside the Parvise Treasury

Century and Period: 17th - 18th century [composite font?], Baroque [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, and to Colin Smith, for their photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Buck (1951): "After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1538 the remaining portion of the Abbey church was repaired and used as a parish church. The registers date back to 1590, and the bowl of the font is probably of this time; it is carved on the sides with narrow flutings of the period. The stem, however, is apparently of later date." Un-documented reports of a 17th-century font located just outtside the entrance to the Parvise Treasury area of the Abbey [to be documented]. Pevsner & Cherry (1975) write. "Font. Heavy C18 baluster with fluted bowl." The fluted basin is Georgian and the base could be slightly earlier, or 18th-century as well, as Pevsner & Cherry suggest. [NB: the Abbey goes back to the 7th century, but we have no information on the original font of this church -- cf. Index entry for Malmesbury No. 1 for a font of the 15th (?) century in the Abbey church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.5847, -2.0984

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 35′ 4.92″ N, 2° 5′ 54.24″ W

UTM: 30U 562466 5715234

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: goblet-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

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