Wilton nr. Salisbury No. 1 / Wiltunie

There are two entries in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SU0931/wilton/] [accessed 3 July 2022] neither of which reports priest or church in it. The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 6, 1962) notes: "While so many of the parish churches were falling into ruin, or being united with others, the church of St. Mary in Brede Street and Corn Street, facing the Market Place, maintained its importance, and by the end of the 16th century the churches which remained had all been united with St. Mary's. St. Mary's thus became the parish church of Wilton, and remained so until in 1844, at the instigation and expense of Lord Herbert of Lea and his mother, the Countess of Pembroke, the church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas, West Street, was built [...] The original church [...] was partly rebuilt in the 13th century, but in its present form it is a survival of rebuilding which took place in the 15th century. [...] The new church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas, West Street, was built in 1844 on the site of the earlier church of St. Nicholas". There is a baptismal font in the old church consisting of a monolithic tub with an upper cylindrical volume decorated with irregular fluted pattern that ends in a pair of parallel mouldings; the lower volume is also round, but plain, and tapers to a plain circular lower base/plinth. The wooden cover is round and flat, with a large flat cross on top; appears modern.