Winterbourne Stoke
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March by Trish Steel [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/372545] [accessed 21 September 2008]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March by Trish Steel [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/372545] [accessed 21 September 2008]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March by Trish Steel [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/372545] [accessed 21 September 2008]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2008 by Trish Steel [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/364906] [accessed 22 Fdebruary 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13829WIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: "ST. PETER'S church presumably took its dedication, recorded in 1163, from St. Peter's abbey, Jumieges." [cf. VCH entry in bib.]
Church Address: Church Street, Winterborne Stoke, Wiltshire, SP3 4SU
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A303, 8 km SW of Amesbury, 13 km NW of Salisbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Branch and Dole
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the font from the pre-Conquest church here?)
Font Notes:
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Pevsner & Cherry (1975) mention the cover: "Font cover. Jacobean, nice, with volutes and balusters", but do not mention the Norman font. The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 15, 1995) notes: "A church stood on the king's Winterbourne Stoke estate in 1066, when it was served by a chaplain. [...] It was given to Jumieges abbey in the period 1078–83 [...] The nave is 12th-century with a north doorway of two orders and a blocked south doorway with a square-headed opening beneath a moulded arch of one order. [...] The church contains a 12th-century font, with a 17th-century cover". The baptismal font consists of a cylindrical basin with a plain rounded underbowl and a centre-ring moulding, raised on a moulded base and a quadrangular lower base. The font cover, as noted in Pevsner & Cherry above, is probably 17th-century.
[NB: we have no information on the font of the pre-Conquest church here]
[NB: we have no information on the font of the pre-Conquest church here]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 576936 5667081
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: Jacobean? / 17th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 592