Chiseldon / Chiseldene
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2001
Image Source: photograph taken July 2001 by Duncan & Mandy Ball
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 14076CHI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Cross
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SE of Swindon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Kingsbridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: Wilsford, Chiseldon and Ogbourne St. Andrew [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, for their photograph of this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Buck (1951) notes a trio of similar plain octagonal fonts mounted on octagonal stems at Wilsford, Chiseldon and Ogbourne St. Andrew, all three dating from the late Norman or Transitional period. The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 9, 1970) notes: "According to a charter of Edward the Elder the church of Chiseldon was granted in 903 to the New Minster, Winchester, later Hyde Abbey. [...] The church was valued for the taxation of 1291 at £20. [...] t is apparent from the interior that the fabric dates largely from soon after 1200. An even earlier origin for the church is suggested by the head of a small Saxon window which has been built into a pier near the south-west corner of the nave." There is, however, no mention of a font in the VCH entry. The present baptismal font consists of an octagonal basin in which the upper rim shows evidence of stone insert repairs, probably in the area where the old metal staples had been; raised on a plain octagonal lower base. The wooden cover is octagonal, plain and flat; appears modern.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 587793 5707759
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-01-11 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"]