Dauntsey / Dantesie / Dantsey
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Results: 4 records
view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2005 by Duncan & Mandy Ball [http://www.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_daun_in.htm]
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view of font cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2000 by Duncan & Mandy Ball [http://www.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_daun_in.htm]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the modern font by the north door
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2005 by Duncan & Mandy Ball [http://www.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_daun_in.htm]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14135DAU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Location: Church Lane, Dauntsey, Wiltshire, SN154HT
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the M4, SE of Malmesbury, 11 km NE of Chippenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol
Historical Region: Hundred of Startley [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Malmesbury
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, and to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for their photographs of church and font
Church Notes: "church of ST. JAMES, so called in 1763" [cf. VCH entry in bib.] -- 14thC Doom board; one of only five in the country; above the rood screen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DauntseyDoomBoard.jpg] [accessed 14 Feb 2012]
There is an entry for Dauntsey [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST9782/dauntsey/] [accessed 22 May 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 14, 1991) notes: "The church at Dauntsey was claimed by Malmesbury abbey c. 1177. Since the abbey had already granted its Dauntsey estate in fee by 1086 and since the demesne of Dauntsey manor was later tithe free, it is possible that Dauntsey church was built before the Conquest and belonged to the abbey [...] The nave was apparently built or rebuilt in the 12th century [...] There are registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials from 1653." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish. The present baptismal font, located in the north aisle, is a modern one, probably 19th-century; it consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides raised on a plain octagonal pedestal and a moulded lower base. The wooden font cover, a low pyramid of octagonal shape, is older than the font, and must have belonged to an earlier vessel [NB: we have no information on the original baptismal font of the medieval church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.540495,
-2.031673
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 32′ 25.78″ N,
2° 1′ 54.02″ W
UTM: 30U 567154 5710377
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Barral i Altet, Xavier, Belgique romane, et Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1989
