Ogbourne St. Andrew

INFORMATION

FontID: 14077OGB
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Church Lane, Ogbourne, Wiltshire, SN8 1SD
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 3 km N of Marlborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Selkley
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: [cf. FontNotes]
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. 12, 1983) notes: "Maud of Wallingford confirmed her gift of the church of Ogbourne St. Andrew to the abbey of Bec c. 1148. [...] The church had evidently been dedicated to St. Andrew by the late 13th century when the modern name of the parish was first used. [...] The parish registers are complete from 1538." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. [NB: the VCH entry mentions a 13th-century chapel at Rockley, a nearby hamlet, but notes: "No sacrament was administered there and the people of Rockley were required to attend the mother church at Ogbourne St. Andrew [...] By 1583 the building had been demolished"].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 588276 5700413

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-02-06 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"]