Berwick St. Leonard

INFORMATION

FontID: 17907BER
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Church Location: Hindon Rd., Berwick St. Leonard, Wiltshire SP3 5SN
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 22 km W of Salisbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Dunworth
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 13, 1987) notes: "There was presumably a church at Berwick c. 1120 served by the clerk of St. Leonard who held land and tithes as a tenant of Shaftesbury abbey's manor of Tisbury. [...] A priest held the church as the abbey's tenant c. 1130. [...] church of St. Leonard, so called in the late 13th century, [...] nave is 12th-century. [...] registers date from 1723." There is no font mentioned in the VCH entry for this parish]. The National Monumentgs Record (English Heritage) [www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=320783] [accessed 8 February 2012] reports: "C12 cylindrical stone font with brass cover" in this church. The Churches Conservation Trust [www.visitchurches.org.uk] [accessed 8 February 2012] reports a Norman font in the church.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.0975, -2.110278
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 5′ 51″ N, 2° 6′ 37″ W
UTM: 30U 562300 5661044

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal, brass
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-02-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.