Purton nr. Swindon / Piritone
Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2000
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Results: 4 records
view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Mary's church, Purton. Viewed from the south-east.. St. Mary's is one of only three parish churches in the country that has both a central tower and spire and a western tower. The others are at Wanborough in Wiltshire and Ormskirk in Lancashire. The central tower was built in c.1325 and the transepts were also added in the 14th century."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Billinger, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2008 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/876764] [accessed 23 May 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Billinger, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2008 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/876758] [accessed 23 May 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2000
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2000 by Duncan & Mandy Ball
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken December 2004 by Duncan & Mandy Ball
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 13813PUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NE of Wootton Bassett, 8 km NW of Swindon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol
Historical Region: Hundred of Staple [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Highworth
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, for their photographs of this font
Church Notes: there may have been a church here in the 12thC [NB: the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/3494/] [accessed 23 May 2017] notes: "The only possible 12thc. fabric is the capital of the east respond of the south arcade, which is a crude scallop."; present church is 13thC; restored in 1872 by William Butterfield
Font Notes:
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There is antry for this Purton [variant spelling] in the Domesday Survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU0987/purton/] [accessed 23 May 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The 'Brief guide to St Mary's church' available on the This is Wiltshire web pages [www.communigate.co.uk/wilts/stmaryspurton] [accessed 15 September 2008] mentions a 13th-century font in this church. There is no mention of the font in Pevsner & Cherry (1975). The font consists of a crudely cut octagonal basin raised on an octagonal base and a splaying moulded lower base; the basin is probably the only original part. The wooden cover is round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.5833, -1.8616
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 34′ 59.88″ N, 1° 51′ 41.76″ W
UTM: 30U 578874 5715307
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]