Alvediston
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BBL01: design element - motifs - groove
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Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Wiltshire/Alvediston/Alvediston2003.htm] [accessed 10 December 2008]
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CR01: design element - motifs - moulding
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view of church exterior
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the cover of the font in the foreground, centre of the image
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Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Wiltshire/Alvediston/Alvediston2003.htm] [accessed 10 December 2008]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Collins, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Collins [http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Wiltshire/Alvediston/Alvediston2003.htm] [accessed 10 December 2008]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14082ALV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Alvediston, Wiltshire, SP5 5LE
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 15 km SW of Wilton, 24 km WSW of Salisbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Chalke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the centre aisle, W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Transitional
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Collins, of www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Wiltshire, for his photographs of church and font
Church Notes: "The church, called ST. MARY'S in the mid 18th century" [VCH entry; cf. bib ref below]
Font Notes:
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Listed in Buck (1951) as one of "several fonts dating from the latter half of the 12th century which, whilst retaining some Norman characteristics such as the chamfered edge, are devoid of all the other usual Norman ornaments, thus showing the tendency towards the Early English style during the period generally known as Transitional Norman", in which group Buck includes: Alvediston, Berwick St. James, Broughton Gifford, Collingbourne Ducis, Odstock and Westwood. The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 13, 1987) notes: "There was a church at Alvediston in the 12th century. [...] Of the 12th-century church, only the nave, small and with thick walls, appears to survive." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 567784 5651796
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: flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-02-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part III", LIV, CXCV (December 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 192-209; p. 32