Alderton

INFORMATION

FontID: 14114ALD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B4040, 12 km ENE of Chipping Sodbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Noted in Buck (1951) as a group of octagonal baptismal fonts with simple plain mouldings and dating from the late 12th or early 13th century in the county of Wiltshire, at Alderton, Blunsdon St. Andrew, Broad Hinton, Collingbourne Kingston, Corston, Fonthill Bishop, Idmiston, Lydiard Tregoze, Marden and Melksham.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

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; p. 32