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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - columns - moulded columns - 14
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)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of church exterior - west tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Buck, 1951
Image Source: B&W photograph in Buck (1951)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 13817SOP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 11 km SW of Malmesbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [re-tooled or re-cut in the 19th century], Early English [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photograph of this church
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Buck (1951): "A tub font, slightly taperin downwards [...] the upper part is carved with an arcade of 14 trefoil-headed arches, the columns of which have moulded capitals and bases, also two separate mouldings on the shaft between the capitals and bases; the lower half is plain and the base is moulded. The carving was recut apparently when the church was restored in the mid-nineteenth century." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font.Circular, C13. Trefoiled arches on stem shafts with two shaft-rings." The wooden cover consists of a flat round platform on which are eight vertical scroll ribs arranged around a finial; appears modern.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 63.75 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 102.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in feet/inches in Buck (1951)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
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. 33 and pl. V.34
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912