Foxham

INFORMATION

FontID: 14140FOX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Chapel / Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Foxham, Wiltshire, SN15 4NQ
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 7 km NE of Chippenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
The 'Church notes...' (1887), in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840", reports "a small chapel [...] probably of Perpendicular date; but so mutilated as to present no feature of interest. The font is of large size, octagonal, and probably of the date of the building." The Wiltshire Community History [http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getcom.php?id=29] [accessed 27 December 2008] informs: "St John the Baptist Church was built in 1878-81 by William Butterfield" [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the old font].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 566437 5705085

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

"Church notes, chiefly in Berks, Wilts, and Oxford, with a few in Somerset and Gloucestershire", 44, Archaeological Journal, 1887, pp. 43-50; 185-193; 291-303; 397-402; p. 193