West Dean nr. Salisbury

Described and illustrated in Buck (1950). Buck uses a pre-1866 font drawing made by Richard Kemm (from the Library of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society) which shows a plain bucket-shape basin on a plain wider circular base. At the time of the 1866 renovation of this church, however, adds Buck (ibid.): "The original font was brought from the old church, cut in half, and the bowl portion, which is 33 inches across the top, placed on a 'nice new Victorian stone base". Buck (ibid.) shows also a photograph of the 'renovated' font, the old bucket-shaped basin raised on a typical Victorian multi-support base with the usual coloured-marble colonnettes. The new wooden cover shown in Buck (ibid.) is flat and round, quite likely Victorian as well.