Westwood
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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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Image Source: B&W image from the photographer's original negative [1930s?] by George Love Dafnis [Image Reference
24773 -- Collection Reference
Private Box 229] in Bath in Time [www.bathintime.co.uk/image/340056/westwood-church-font-c-1930s] [accessed 31 January 2011]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © My another account, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 October 2011 by My another account [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Westwood,_Wiltshire.JPG] [accessed 27 January 2012]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bath in Time - Private Collection, 2012
Image Source: B&W image from the photographer's original negative [1930s?] by George Love Dafnis [Image Reference
24773 -- Collection Reference
Private Box 229] in Bath in Time [www.bathintime.co.uk/image/340056/westwood-church-font-c-1930s] [accessed 31 January 2011]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13828WES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?) / 14th century, Transitional [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Westwood, Wiltshire BA15 2AE
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km S of Bradford on Avon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Wiltshire
Historical Region: Hundred of Elstub and Everleigh
Additional Comments: altered font? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Lewis (1876) writes: "The font is of eleventh century date, but the cover, is more modern." There is a B&W photograph of this font [1930s?] by George Love Dafnis in Bath in Time, Private Collection [www.bathintime.co.uk/image/340056/westwood-church-font-c-1930s] [accessed 31 January 2011]. Listed in Buck (1951) as one of "several fonts dating from the latter half of the 12th century which, whilst retaining some Norman characteristics such as the chamfered edge, are devoid of all the other usual Norman ornaments, thus showing the tendency towards the Early English style during the period generally known as Transitional Norman", in which group Buck includes: Alvediston, Berwick St. James, Broughton Gifford, Collingbourne Ducis, Odstock and Westwood. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font cover. Perp[endicular], ogee in outline, with crocketed ridges, and a scale pattern. Suspended from an iron bracket." The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides, the upper rim chamfered; the underbowl chamfer is decorated with graded moulding; on a stem and lower base, both octagonal. Unless the font has been re-tooled or re-cut, it appears of a later date than some of the above claims.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 550580 5686885
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 15th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: [cf. FontNotes]
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. 32
- Iraburu Mathieu, José M., "La pila bautismal de Ardaiz", 1975, Cuadernos de Etnología y Etnografía Navarra, 1975, pp. 86-87; p. 568
- Lewis, Harold, The Chuch Rambler : a series of articles on the churches in the neighbourhood of Bath, London; Bath: Hamilton, Adams and Co.; William Lewis, The Herald Office, 1876, p. 377