Orcheston St. George / Orchestone
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 March 2011 by Trish Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2371424] [accessed 22 February 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15389ORC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 10 km NW of Amesbury, near Orcheston St. Mary
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Branch and Dole
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The present font is octagonal, with decorated panels on the basin and stem, and symbols (one of them a cross) on the underbowl chamfer; probably 19th-century. A similar font can be found at nearby Orcheston St. Mary. Orcheston St. George's church has a Norman doorway now covered by the 19th-century vestry [NB: the old font may have been replaced at the time of that renovation; we have no information on its whereabouts]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.204182,
-1.916644
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 12′ 15.05″ N,
1° 54′ 59.92″ W
UTM: 30U 575684 5673089