Chollerton No. 1
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design element - architectural - arch
Scene Description: was it re-carved at the time when the Roman altar was turned into a font?
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter McDermott, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 26 April 2009 by Peter McDermott [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2725836] [accessed 17 July 2023]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Giles Church, Chollerton - nave" -- the later font and its cover are visible at the back
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Giles Church, Chollerton - font [...] this Roman altar has been inverted and converted into Christian use as a font. The altar, dedicated to Jupiter, was found buried in the churchyard in 1827."
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Giles Church, Chollerton - west wall" -- the two vessels seen here side by side
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01141CHO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Location: Chollerton, Hexham NE46 4TF, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Northumberland, North East
Directions to Site: Located off the A6079, 4 km NE of Chollerford, 11-12 kms N of Hexham, about 40 km W of Newcastle upon Tyne
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 3rd - 5th century? [re-carved?], Anglo-Roman [altered]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: altar-font
Cognate Fonts: The Haydon and St. John Lee fonts (Northumberland) are hollowed-out Roman altars as well
No entry found for Chollerton in the Domesday survey. Bond (1908) mentions three examples of "Roman altars [...] converted into fonts": this one, the font at Haydon Bridge and another one at St. John Lee, all in Northumberland. Cox & Harvey (1907) list it as a font made of a hollowed out Roman altar. Tyrrell-Green (1928) describes it as "a good example of a Roman altar from Cilurnum" later made into a baptismal font. Noted in Pevsner (1957) as "a re-used Roman altar". Listed in Stocker (1997) as one of a group of "Roman altars incorporated into fonts". The object is said to have been inverted and the base end hollowed out as the basin. Noted in Collingwood & Wright [in http://www.roman-britain.org/epigraphy/rib_index.htm [summary of 1965's edition] as a damaged Anglo-Roman altar: "1827 buried in Chollerton church-yard; defaced in Medieval times & re-used as a font; Chollerton Church", the inscription reads " I O M C...O ... ... ... …" The entry for this church in British Listed Buildings [Listing NGR: NY9311171917] notes: "Parish Church. C12, C14, c1796. Restored and gothicized 1873 [...] 2 fonts, one a large re-used Roman altar, the other C13 with round bowl on square stem with broach-stopped chamfers and 4 colonettes with moulded capitals. C17 font cover with scrolls and turned finial."
[cf. Index entry for Chollerton No. 2 for a medieval font listed for this church]"
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
55° 2' 29.2" N,
2° 6' 34.0" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: " I O M C...O ... ... ... …"
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Hall, Anna Maria [Mrs. S.C.], Sketches of Irish character, London: Frederick Westley and A. H. Davies, 1829
Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; r["References"]
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928