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Description

Summary: Octagonal font with bowl faces with ornate circular and cross designs. All explained in description steps, through circular mouldings to stem with tall double arches to each face. Steping out to octagonal plinth. Alternate faces have a rounded "foot" to the side. Pen drawing of font in St Mary's church, Devizes, scale 8" = 1", 1899 (?), by H Pridham


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