Stanton St. Bernard
Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2000
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Results: 4 records
BBU01: design element - motifs - zigzag
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2000
Image Source: digital photograph taken October by Duncan & Mandy Ball [ww.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_StantonStB.htm] [accessed 21 September 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
BU01: design element - motifs - zigzag
Scene Description: re-carved? [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2000
Image Source: digital photograph taken October by Duncan & Mandy Ball [ww.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_StantonStB.htm] [accessed 21 September 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2000
Image Source: digital photograph taken October by Duncan & Mandy Ball [ww.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_StantonStB.htm] [accessed 21 September 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2000
Image Source: digital photograph taken October by Duncan & Mandy Ball [ww.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_StantonStB.htm] [accessed 21 September 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 13819BER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Road, Stanton St Bernard, Wiltshire, SN8 4LJ
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 10 km E of Devizes, 12 km SW of Marlborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Swanborough
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [re-carved?], Norman [altered?]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, for their photographs of this church and font
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. The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 10, 2012] notes: "The church was standing in 1267 but there is no evidence in the present building or in drawings of building earlier than the 14th century", and the VCH entry reports two building restorations in the 19th century; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Circular, Norman, with a top band of flat zigzag and a wider band below which seem to be C19."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.359697, -1.869256
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 21′ 34.91″ N, 1° 52′ 9.32″ W
UTM: 30U 578728 5690433
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 65 cm*
Basin Depth: 28.75 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Buck (1950)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat with flat carved cross
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