Wroughton / Ellendune

The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 11, 1980) notes: "A church wall is mentioned in the bounds of Ellendune appended to the charter of 956. [...] Since that church, of which no trace remains, was almost certainly on the boundary between Ellendune and Elcombe, it may have been on the site of the present church which stands on or very close to that boundary [...] Besides the font in use in 1977 there was in the church the bowl of another of the early 14th century." This earlier basin is round, the sides decorated with parallel mouldings of which the upper one, though much eroded and damaged, appears to be a rope moulding; the fragment remaining is missing about half of its lower part and underbowl. [NB: since that time the fragment of the old basin appears to have been restored and is now raised on a matching modern pedestal and located in the centre of the south aisle].