Tidcombe
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2009 by Hugh Chevallier [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1436692] [accessed 27 February 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17937TID
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Tidcombe, Wiltshire, SN8 3SL
Country Name: England
Location: Wiltshire, South West
Directions to Site: Located 15 km SE of Marlborough, 15 km NW of Andover (Hants.)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Kinwardstone
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church Notes: "church of ST. MICHAEL, so called in 1763" [cf. VCH entry in bib.]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The Victoria County History (Wiltshire, vol. 16, 1999) notes: "Tidcombe church was standing in the mid 13th century. [...] Apart from the porch and tower it was built in the 14th century [...] The church was lightly restored in 1882 [...] The registers begin in 1639." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this church. The British Listed Buildings [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-310939-church-of-st-michael-tidcombe-and-fosbur] [accessed 27 February 2012] entry for this church reports: "Font, simple conical limestone bowl date undetermined."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.322438,
-1.584791
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 19′ 20.78″ N,
1° 35′ 5.25″ W
UTM: 30U 598613 5686633
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-02-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.