Devizes No. 2
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 17879DEV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Long Street, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 1PA
Site Location: Wiltshire, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 16 km SE of Chippenham, 18 km E of Trowbridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Norman church here)
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Devizes in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 10, 1975) notes: "The history of the churches of St. John the Baptist and St. Mary the Virgin is so closely interwoven that for part of its course it must be told as a single narrative. In 1194–5 the churches are called ecclesie. [...] In 1226–8, [...] however, they are capelle and that word was still being applied to them in 1275. [...] But whether called 'churches' or 'chapels' the two have always formed a single cure under a single rector, [...] rector ecclesiarum loci, as he was called in 1322." There is no font mentioned in the VCH for either of these two medieval parishes. The entry for this church in Historic Egnland [Listing NGR: SU0048261237[ notes: "Major Norman church very likely due to Bishop Roger of Sarum. Massive crossing tower. Big Norman windows with decorated arches [...] Norman chancel with low rib vaulting"; no font mentioned,
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 570053 5689561
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.