Warminster No. 2 / Guermastre / Warmister
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image and permission received (e-mail of 4 May 2015)
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2015 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 4 May 2015)
view of basin
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2015 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 4 May 2015)
view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bikeboy, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 30 March 2013 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3389969] [accessed 9 May 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the modern font in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2015 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 4 May 2015)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13827WAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Notes: chapel endowed by Hewett sisters in 13thC; it is a foundation independent of the CofE
Church Address: Market Place, Warminster, Wiltshire, England, BA12 9AJ
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B3414, off the A36, between Salisbury and Bath. The chapel stands at the W end of Warminster's Market Place
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Warminster [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Warminster [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST8745/warminster/] [accessed 9 May 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 8, 1965) reports: "There was a chapel of St. Laurence in the Market Place of Warminster in the first half of the 13th century", but mentions no font. A font is noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. An C18 baluster stem and a small bowl." The present font, octagonal with carved panels is modern. The National Archives [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/] [accessed 9 May 2015] lists a 1927 petition for faculty: "D/1/61/67/17 - Warminster St. Denys: to move old font to Chapel of St Lawrence", a document located at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre. The present font at St. Denys' is modern, of 1889; it is possible that the font moved to St. Laurence is the present Victorian one there. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 557065 5672835
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.204067, -2.183165
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 12′ 14.64″ N, 2° 10′ 59.39″ W
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 555