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B01: design element - motifs - braid
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph in Geograph [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/874137] [accessed 12 September2008]; licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence, 2008 [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in Geograph [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/874137] [accessed 12 September2008]; licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence, 2008 [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13802PIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A30, 6 km ENE of Salisbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Font Notes:
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Classed in Buck (1950) as one of a group of "Middle Norman circular Fonts, c. 1100-1150" in Wiltshire. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Norman, circular, with a plaited band." Illustrated in the Geograph site [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/874137] [accessed 12 September 2008]. The font consists of a round basin with a rounded inderbowl, the only visible decoration being a braid moulding all around the side of the basin; it is raised on a plain circular pedestal and a moulded lower base, both these apparently modern, and a round plinth with a kneeling stone. There may have been some re-tooling of the side of the font, but the braid motif appears original. The wooden cover is flat and round, with metal docration and ring handle; appears modern.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining [modern]
REFERENCES
Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part I", LIII, CXCIII (December 1950), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1950, pp. 458-470; p. 469
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912