North Tidworth / Todeorde / Tudworth
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B01: design element - motifs - groove - 4
Scene Description: marking the curve of the scallop
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Buck, 1951
Image Source: B&W photograph in Buck, 1951
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Buck, 1951
Image Source: B&W photograph in Buck, 1951
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Talbot, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 January 2009 by Chris Talbot [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1111394] [accessed 22 February 2012]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Talbot, 2009
Image Source: N/Adigital photograph taken 4 January 2009 by Chris Talbot [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1111407] [accessed 22 February 2012]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Buck, 1951
Image Source: B&W photograph in Buck, 1951
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13797TID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Notes: "church of HOLY TRINITY, so called in 1763" [cf. VCH entry in bib.]
Church Address: Plassey Road, Tidworth, Wiltshire, SP9 7LE
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km SW of Ludgershall, 22 km NNE of Salisbury, 14 km WNW of Andover (hants.)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Amesbury [may have belonged to the Andover Hundred at an earlier period]
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Buck (1951) as one in a group of Norman square fonts dating between 1130 and 1200, including those at North Tidworth, Codford St. Peter, Ebbesbourne Wake, Steeple Langford, Amesbury, Maiden Bradley, Downton and Dinton; "Like a cushion capital and the only example of its kind in Wiltshire". Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Norman, in the uncomon form of a large single-scallop capital." The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 15, 1995) notes: "The church may have been standing in the 12th century, [...] but the earliest reference to it is of 1291. [...] It contains a 12th-century font, but the oldest dateable part of its structure is a 14th-century niche which was reset when the church was rebuilt in the 15th century. [...] restoration of the church in 1882". [NB: the Church of St. Mary, South Tidworth, is modern, late-19th century, as is its baptismal font].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 593108 5677327
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.239704, -1.666184
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 14′ 22.93″ N, 1° 39′ 58.26″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part II", LIV, CXCIV (June 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 19-35; p. 28-29 and pl. IV.31
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 359