Minety / Minty / Mynty / Upper Minety

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].