West Overton / Overton

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Results: 8 records

B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 June 2012 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2001

Image Source: digital photograph taken September 2001 by Duncan & Mandy Ball

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2012 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © UKgeofan, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2010 by Ukgeofan [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:West_Overton_Church.jpg] [accessed 27 January 2012]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duncan & Mandy Ball, 2001

Image Source: digital photograph taken September 2001 by Duncan & Mandy Ball

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital photograph taken September 2001 by Duncan & Mandy Ball

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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2012 by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15362OVE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: The Grange, Overton, Wiltshire, SN8 4ES
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 5 km SW of Marlborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Elstub and Everleigh
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Duncan & Mandy Ball [www.oodwooc.co.uk] and to John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com], for their photographs of this church and font
The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 11, 1980) notes: "In the 12th century there were churches at East Overton, Fyfield, and Alton Priors. [...] The parish church of St. Michael and All Angels [...] was built in a mixture of gothic styles between 1877 and 1883 to designs by C. E. Ponting and replaced the medieval church which had become dilapidated." There is no mention of a font in this church in the VCH entry. The present baptismal font in the Perpendicular style, consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with large quatrefoils, the underbowl graded; raised on a short and plain stem and a moulded lower base, both octagonal as well. On a modern two-step plinth. So does the cover: flat octagonal wooden platform with gilded metalwork topped by a cross finial.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 582350 5696183

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood and metal,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-01-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.