Wishford / Great Wishford / Wicheford / Willesford Magna / Wishford Magna / Witford
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design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases
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Image Source: digital photograph 25 March 2022 by Colin Smith
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design element - motifs - sawtooth - vertical
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Image Source: digital photograph 25 March 2022 by Colin Smith
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view of basin
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by 9 September 2008 by Trish Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/957315] [accessed 22 February 2012]
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by 9 September 2008 by Trish Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/956907] [accessed 22 February 2012]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph 25 March 2022 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior in context - south view
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view of church exterior in context - west view
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Image Source: digital photograph 25 March 2022 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by 9 September 2008 by Trish Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/957213] [accessed 22 February 2012]
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view of font
Scene Description: the base is a 19thC replacement
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Buck, 1950
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Buck (1950)
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by 9 September 2008 by Trish Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/957055] [accessed 22 February 2012]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: by the south entranceway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 25 March 2022 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 25 March 2022 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 16 July 2022)
INFORMATION
FontID: 13830WIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Location: South St., Great Wishford, Wiltshire, SP2 0PH, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A36, 5 km NW of Wilton, 9 km NW of Salisbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Branch and Dole / Hundred of Nrancgbury [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the S entranceway
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Coln Smith for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: "church of ST. GILES, so called in 1386 (fn. 219) and possibly in 1298," [cf. VCH entry in bib.]
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for [Great and Little] Wishford [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/great-and-little-wishford/] [accessed 17 July 2022] none of which mentions priest or church in it. Classed in Buck (1950) as one of a group of "Middle Norman circular Fonts, c. 1100-1150" in Wiltshire: "Originally an unmounted 'tub' font, but raised on a stem and base when the church was restored in 1861. On the sides of the bowl are ten projecting Norman columns, the spaces between which are filled with vertical sawtooth ornament." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Circular, Norman, with columns and wild vertical strips of zigzag between." The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 15, 2012) notes: "The church may have been standing in the 12th century or earlier. [...] It was first recorded in 1207, when it was served by a rector. [...] The narrowness of the nave, which was rebuilt in the 19th century, suggests that its predecessor may have been of the 12th century or earlier. [...] Registers of baptisms [...] survive from 1558"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.118643, -1.886509
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 7′ 7.12″ N, 1° 53′ 11.43″ W
UTM: 30U 577933 5663608
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: mo
Notes: flat, round and plain
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-02-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912