Cholderton

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BU01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: with 'trumpet' projections -more commonly seen on scalloped motifs- on the underbowl

Image Source: B&W photograph in Buck (1951)

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: B&W photograph in Buck (1951)

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: the 12th-century church; it was demolished in 1851 [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: drawing in http://www.choldertonwilts.org.uk/nicpics.htm#rens [accessed 16 February 2012]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the 1850 church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 March 2010 by Andrew Mathewson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1737660] [accessed 16 February 2012]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: if the drawing is accurate it would show the two churches between 1850, the year that the new one was completed, and 1851, the year the old church was demolished [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: drawing in http://www.choldertonwilts.org.uk/nicpics.htm#rens [accessed 16 February 2012]

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view of font

Image Source: B&W photograph in Buck (1951)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14036CHO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas [new church]

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Cholderton, Wiltshire, SP4 0DW

Country Name: England

Location: Wiltshire, South West

Directions to Site: Located 8 km E of Amesbury, 15 km NE of Salisbury

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury

Historical Region: Hundred of Amesbury

Font Location in Church: Inside the 19th-century church, just inside the entrance, to the W

Century and Period: 12th century (late?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Church Notes: "church of ST. NICHOLAS was so called in 1763." [cf. VCH entry in bib.]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Buck (1951): "This church was rebuilt by T. H. Wyatt in 1850 and a modern octagonal font of no particular interest is used. The old font bowl, however, after lying for some years in the churchyard, has been placed inside the church near the entrance with other pieces of old stone. This bowl is unique in design, the sides being plain with a concave underside on which are pairs of cones with carved upper ends projecting from the bottom of the sides of the bowl" [NB: the equivalent of 'trumpet scallops' but, in this case, instead of a scallop at the outer edge is a large foliage motif]. The village web site confirms: "The font [i.e., the new font] is of Caen stone with an oak cover. The Norman font from the old church is on the left hand side as you enter the ante-chapel." The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 15, 1995) notes: "A church stood in Cholderton c. 1175 when Roger Bernard, mesne lord of Cholderton manor, granted it to St. Neots priory (Hunts.) [...] In the early 19th century the nave may have survived from the 12th-century church. [...] A new church was built 1841–50 [...] beside and north of the old, which was demolished in 1851. [...] A late 12th-century font and most of the mid 19th-century fittings survived in 1992."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 592497 5670817

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-02-16 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part II", LIV, CXCIV (June 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 19-35; r["References"]

Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part III", LIV, CXCV (December 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 192-209; r["References"]