Marden nr. Devizes / Merton

There is a 1807 watercolour of this font by John Buckler (1770-1851). The font is 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. Noted in the Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 10, 1975): "There is architectural evidence of a 12th-century church at Marden and a reference to it occurs in 1205 [...] The plain octagonal font is probably of 13th-century date".