Fisherton Anger

Drawing of a font in the Harvey Pridham Drawings of English Fonts (MS 56). [Folder Number, Item Description]. University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept., done by Harvey Pridham February 1889 accompanied by the following description: "All circular. A modern plinth, also circular, and 10 1/2 deep, with 2 1/2 chamfer included, is omitted. Circular bowl, 10 1/2 deep, 3 1/4 margin, irregular: flat modern cover. Position, under South West Tower of the new church. This tower is a recast of the tower of the old church, which fell to ruin; and from which the font and other old work was brought. It was about half a mile away, near the river Wylye. Flat-medium cover." Noted in the Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 6, 1962): "The rectory of Fisherton is first mentioned in 1319 […] The survival, however, of a Norman font, […] if nothing else, raises the presumption that the church (St. Clement's) […] was established long before […] The Norman font, standing on modern steps, was brought from St. Clement's."