Wroughton / Ellendune

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B01: design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

Scene Description: below the rim moulding; the lower part of the original basin and the underbowl are missing [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken September 2004 by Duncan & Mandy Ball

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R01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken September 2004 by Duncan & Mandy Ball

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view of church interior - south aisle - looking east

Scene Description: the font in the foreground

Image Source: photograph taken September 2004 by Duncan & Mandy Ball

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view of font

Image Source: photograph taken September 2004 by Duncan & Mandy Ball[www.oodwooc.co.uk]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 15361WRO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist and St. Helen

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist & St. Helen

Church Location: Church Hill, Wroughton, Wiltshire, SN4 9JS

Country Name: England

Location: Wiltshire, South West

Directions to Site: Located 6 km S of Swindon

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol

Historical Region: Hundred of Elstub and Everleigh

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the S aisle

Century and Period: 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Duncan & Mandy Ball, of www.oodwooc.co.uk, for their photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 582983 5708393

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-09-20 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.