Froxfield nr. Hungerford

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints Church, Froxfield. The church is built of flint with limestone dressings and the earliest part date from the 13th century."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 March 2011 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2326301] [accessed 19 June 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © fencer_js, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2008 by fencer_js [www.panoramio.com/photo/13482753] [accessed 23 February 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the upper part of the font and its cover are visible on the left (south) side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Laura Anne Photography, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Laura Anne Photography [www.achurchnearyou.com/froxfield-all-saints/] [accessed 23 February 2012]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 14143FRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Road, Froxfield, Wiltshire SN8 3YD
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located located on the A4, 4 km W of Petersfield, 5 km W of Hungerford. 13 km E of Marlborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Kinwardstone
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Font Notes:
No entry found for Froxfield in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 16, 1999): "Froxfield church was standing in the 12th century [...] The church of All Saints, so called in 1763, [...] is built of flint and sarsen rubble with freestone dressings and consists of a chancel with north vestry and organ chamber and a nave with south porch and west bell turret. [...] The nave, small and with thick walls, is 12th-century; the chancel was rebuilt in the 13th century. In the 14th century new windows were inserted in the north and south walls of the nave, and a new doorway was made in its north wall, and in the 15th century a new west window was inserted. [...] restoration of 1891-2 to designs by Ewan Christian"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish. The British Listed Buildings database entry for this church [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-310734-church-of-all-saints-froxfield] [accessed 23 February 2012] reports a "low stone medieval bowl font" in it. The existing font consists of a round basin with tapering sides raised on a pedestal base, located at the west end of the nave, south side. The wooden font cover, flat and round, appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.410354, -1.575944
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 24′ 37.27″ N, 1° 34′ 33.4″ W
UTM: 30U 599039 5696422

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-12-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.