Minety / Minty / Mynty / Upper Minety

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2017 by John Wilkes

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 4

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2017 by John Wilkes

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symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 4

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2017 by John Wilkes

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2017 by John Wilkes

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2012 by Vieve Forward [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2918909] [accessed 18 May 2017]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2017 by John Wilkes

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13795MIN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard

Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard

Country Name: England

Location: Wiltshire, South West

Directions to Site: Located 8 km NE of Malmesbury, 10 km W of Swindon

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol

Historical Region: Hundred of Malmesbury

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the S doorway

Century and Period: 15th century [re-tooled], Perpendicular [altered?]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: 15thC church restored 1896

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is no entry for Minety in te Domesday Survey. The Gentleman's magazine (issue of March 1806: 209) reports on a 'Topographical Tour in Wiltshire… 1805', with a stop in the church at 'Minty' [i.e., Minety], where "the font and shaft are octagon". Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], entirely re-tooled." The Wiltshire Community History web site [www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getimage.php?id=3861] [accessed 31 March 2009] notes: "The 15th century octagonal font is purported to have come from the old parsonage house." The font consists of an octagonal basin with quatrefoiled panels, four of which have blank shilds inscribed in them; moulded underbowl; plain octagonal stem and lower base. The wooden cover is and octagonal pyramid with arrises at the angles and a know finial; probably 19th-century. The Wiltshire CH [cf. supra] also notes: "An Anglo-Saxon Church stood on the site of St. Leonard's; fragments of an Anglo-Saxon cross shaft and a coffin made from an Anglo-Saxon oak tree give clues to the origins of the church." [NB: we have no information on the font of the Anglo-Saxon church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.619982, -1.987386

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 37′ 11.93″ N, 1° 59′ 14.59″ W

UTM: 30U 570103 5719259

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal pyramidal with knob finial

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912