Blunsdon St. Andrew / Little Blunsdon
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view of basin in context
Scene Description: the octagonal basin visible behing the pews
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Image Source: detail of a photograph taken by Duncan & Mandy Ball
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2000
Image Source: photograph taken by Duncan & Mandy Ball
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 14115BLU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located on the B4534, just NNW of Swindon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Cognate Fonts: [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:
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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. The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain tapering sides and a rim moulding, raised on a pedestal base.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
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