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B01: design element - motifs - scallop

Scene Description: a band, all around, forming an over-hang

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BU01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: all around the underbowl

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

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14037HIG
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A3102, 6 km NE of Calne
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century [re-cut stem; later lower base] [composite font], Medieval / composite
Noted and illustrated in Buck (1951), who writes: "The base of the font is unusual in being twelve-sided: it is of different stone from the bowl, and of later date -- fourteenth or fifteenth century. The stem is of the same stone and was probably cut twelve-sided to match the base when the church was rebuilt in in 1867 by Butterfield." [cf. Index entry for Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, for the present location of this font -- the font was moved to the Church and Priory of St. Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, ca. 1961]. [cf. Index entry for Great Yarmouth]. The font consists of a cylindrical basin decorated with a flat moulding at the upper rim, a band of scallop motif that over-hangs about middle of the side, and foliage motif around the underbowl; the base is dodecagonal and is waisted with a roll moulding.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round low dome; appears modern

REFERENCES

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"]