Little Somerford / Somerford Parva / Somerford Mauduit
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Results: 3 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font with the 17th-century (?) cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2000
Image Source: photograph taken in 2000 by Duncan & Mandy Ball
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - detail
![from an old [ca. 1300?] churchyard cross, now kept inside the temple](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1081231022_compressed.png)
Scene Description: from an old [ca. 1300?] churchyard cross, now kept inside the temple
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14152SOM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1251?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (mid?), Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: The Street, Little Somerford, Wiltshire, SN155JW, UK
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Great Somerford, 5 km SE of Malmesbury, 13 km NE of Chippenham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol
Historical Region: Hundred of Malmesbury
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 14, 1991) notes: "The church which stood in Little Somerford in 1251 may originally have been served from Malmesbury abbey. It became a parish church, possibly c. 1251 [...] The nave may survive from the church which stood in 1251. The chancel was built, and a south window was inserted in the nave, in the later 13th century. The porch and west tower were built in the 15th or early 16th century". There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. A font is noted and illustrated in Duncan & Mandy Ball [http://www.oodwooc.co.uk/ph_lsom_in.htm] [accessed 29 September 2009]: the font is described in this source as "probably Victorian" but the "oak lid is 17th century". [NB: the church goes back to the 13th century, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, for their photographs of this church and modern font
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.