Chellington / Challington / Chelwinton / Chelwiynton / Chelyngton / Chillington

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the columns of the font base

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Stafford [www.stnicholascenter.org/galleries/gazetteer/1408/4/] [accessed 11 September 2015]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: EXT S digital photograph taken 10 August 2006 by Nigel Stickells [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/298027] [accessed 11 September 2015] Source caption: "The Church of St Nicholas at Chellington. The church of St Nicholas, which dates from the 13th century, occupies a striking location overlooking the ancient Harrold Bridge and Causeway, as well as the River Great Ouse and Harrold Country Park. The church was made redundant in the 1970s but has since been turned into a well appointed residential centre for young people." FONT digital photograph taken by Chris Stafford [www.stnicholascenter.org/galleries/gazetteer/1408/4/] [accessed 11 September 2015] NO KNOWN

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2006 by Nigel Stickells [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/298027] [accessed 11 September 2015]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the south aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Chris Stafford [www.stnicholascenter.org/galleries/gazetteer/1408/4/] [accessed 11 September 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01248CHA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Felmersham Rd, Carlton, Bedford, Bedford MK43 7NA, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1234 720726

Country Name: England

Location: Bedfordshire, East

Directions to Site: Located just NE of Carlton, 8 km WNW of Bedford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans

Historical Region: Hundred of Willey

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle

Century and Period: 13th century (late?), Early English

Church Notes: redundant; now a Diocesan Youth Centre

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Chellington in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9555/chellington/] [accessed 11 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Kelly's Directory for Bedforshire (1898) reports: "the font, Early English, is a cylindrical basin on circular shafts" [transcription in www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/BDF/Chellington/ [accessed 11 September 2015]]. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Early English period in this church [NB: C&H have "Challington"]. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The first mention that has been found of Chellington Church is in 1278–9, when it was attached to the manor and endowed with one messuage, a croft and 3 roods of land. [...] No part of the church seems older than the 13th century, the chancel and both aisles of the nave dating from c. 1250. [...] In the south aisle there is a late 13th-century circular font on a square stem, with chamfered angles and four detached shafts with moulded capitals and bases."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.19657, -0.595415

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 11′ 47.65″ N, 0° 35′ 43.49″ W

UTM: 30U 664340 5785627

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-09-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907