Wootton Rivers

Described and illustrated in Buck (1951): "This font, dating from the building of the church in the 14th century, is of unique design; it is of the tapering 'tub' shape [...] carved in relief with a deep band of nine quatrefoils around the upper portion of the outside, below which is an arcade of nine cinquefoil-headed arches. When the church was restored in 1862 by George Edmund Street it was found that a large piece of the upper part of the font, to the extent of one and a half of the quatrefoils, had been cut out to allow the passage of the flue pipe from the heating stove; this was then carefully restored and the font raised on a new base." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Of tub-shape, with no separate stem. Decorated with quatrefoils above simple cusped panels […] Dec]orated] in all probability." The Victorian County History (Wiltshire, vol. 16, 1999) notes: "A church belonging to the abbey of Mont St. Michel (Manche) stood at Wootton Rivers in 1086 [...] Most of the building is 14th-century. [...] About 1861 it was restored conservatively to designs by G. E. Street [...] Registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials survive from 1728." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish. [NB: we have no information on he font from the original church here]. There is an old stoup by the south door; age unknown but may match that of the font.