Mildenhall nr. Marlborough / Mildanhald / Mildenhalle
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13793MIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Church Lane, Mildenhall, Wiltshire, SN8 2LU
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 2 km E of Marlborough, S of Kennett
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Selkley
Additional Comments: the name of the town is pronounced 'My-nal', as in 'Final'
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Buck (1951) as a Georgian font "installed in 1816, when the church, which dates back to Saxon times (though the present buiding does not show anything earlier than Norman), was refitted internally". Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975) as a stone font and its wooden cover of the 1815-1816 refurnishing. The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, col. 12, 1983) notes: "There was a church at Mildenhall in the 12th century. [...] The chancel and nave were rebuilt in the late 12th century but the arcades, of which the south arcade is the earlier, probably follow the lines of earlier walls. [...] The parish registers begin in 1560." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. The present font consists of a shallow square basin decorated with quatrefoil-in-a-circle motifs on the sides; decorated chamfered underbowl; very slender square pedestal base decorated with arches. The wooden cover is pyramidal square with finial. [NB: we have no informattion on the earlier font of this church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 590454 5697780
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century
Material: wood
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 III", LIV, CXCV (December 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 192-209; p. 195 and pl. IX.51
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 348