Swallowcliffe [disappeared?]

The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 13, 1987) notes: "Swallowcliffe church was held in the earlier 12th century by Robert Giffard (fl. 1135) [...] The church of St. Peter, so called in the 12th century, [...] stood in Common Lane beside the stream which rises in the village [...] The building was subject to flooding [...] and in 1843 a new church, which may have incorporated material from the old, was built in 12th-century style to designs by G. G. Scott and W. B. Moffat [...] on higher ground north of Rookery Lane"; no font is mentioned in the VCH entry. The present baptismal font is a 19th-century replica of 12th-13th-century design, with an arcade of intersecting round arches all around. The church is Norman, but the original font has not survived. There is second stone font in this church, perhaps of the 18th century, and may have been the replacement of the Norman font; it consists of a shallow hexagonal basin with a protruding flat moulding on the upper rim, rapering to a short stem with a graded moulding below, and a hexagonal pedestal base with a somewhat bulbous shape. [NB: the neo-Norman font must have been introduced by Scott and Moffat in their re-building of the old church -- we have no information on the original Norman font here].