St John the Baptist WW1 Font Cover

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Reference WMO/250888

Address:

St John The Baptist Church

Church Street

Pewsey

SN9 5DW

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Font or Font Cover
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: The lid to norman font. canon bouverie, when he retired, carved the font cover as a memorial to the men of the parish who fell in the 1914-18 war. Most of whom who had been baptised in that font. Their names are listed on an adjacent plaque, also pictured
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(Nearby plaque)TO THE/GLORY OF GOD/AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF/THOSE CONNECTED WITH THIS PARISH/WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE WAR/1914 - 1918/ THE FONT COVER WAS CARVED AND DEDICATED BY/REV. HON CANON BOUVERIE/1918./(Names in three columns)/THEY GAVE THEIR BODIES FOR THEIR COUNTRY, THEIR SOULS TO THEIR GOD.

names are contained on an adjacent plaque-pictured

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