Malmesbury No. 2
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 2 April 2018)
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Scene Description: the replacement base is a later date than the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 January 2018 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 2 April 2018)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2000
Image Source: photograph taken in 2000 by Duncan & Mandy Ball
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - patterns - fluted
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 January 2018 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 2 April 2018)
design element - motifs - floral or foliage
Scene Description: among the lower ends of the flutes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 January 2018 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 2 April 2018)
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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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2000
Image Source: photograph taken in 2000 by Duncan & Mandy Ball
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13791MAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th - 18th century [composite font?], Baroque [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Abbey Church of St. Peter and St. Paul [later Parish Church]
Font Location in Church: Inside the Abbey, just outside the Parvise Treasury
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Address: Gloucester St, Malmesbury SN16 9BA, UK -- Tel.: +44 1666 826666
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 15 km N of Chippenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol
Historical Region: Hundred of Malmesbury
Additional Comments: disappeared font(s)?
Font Notes:
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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].
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 562466 5715234
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.5847, -2.0984
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 35′ 4.92″ N, 2° 5′ 54.24″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, 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; p. 195 and pl. IX.48
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 326