Southwick nr. Trowbridge
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Scene Description: the railing to the right separates the 14th-century font from the later sunk tank-font [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Buck, 1951
Image Source: B&W photograph in Buck (1951)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14121SOU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Thomas
Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 3 km SW of Trowbridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described and illustrated in Buck (1951): "This is a modern church built in 1903 in fourteenth-century style to the design of the late Mr. C. E. Ponting, but it has a 14th-century font which was previously at Chilton Foliat. It is of the comparative plain type due to the scarcity of carvers after the Black Death. Behind this font will be seen an ornamental iron railing which separates it from the lead-lined tank sunk in the floor against the west wall of the church for baptism by immersion. At each end of this tank is a flight of five steps" [NB: Buck (1951) mentions other modern baptismal tanks at Cranbrook, Kent (of 1725), Lambeth Parish Church, London, and Petresham St. Peter's, in Surrey]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: four vertical scroll ribs arranged around a central pivot on a flat flatform; ball finial
REFERENCES
Buck, A.G. Randle, "Some Wiltshire fonts. Part III", LIV, CXCV (December 1951), The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 1951, pp. 192-209; r["References"]