Tilsworth / Pileworde / Tileword / Tillisword / Twylesworth

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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: very damaged; may have been decorated originally

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of font cover

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view of font in context

Image Source: photograph ca. 1910 in the Bedford Borough Council website entry for Tilsworth [http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/Tilsworth/ListOfTilsworthVicars.aspx] [accessed 20 January 2010]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01258TIL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: off Stanbridge Road, Tilsworth, Bedfordshire, LU7 9PS

Country Name: England

Location: Bedfordshire, East

Directions to Site: Located just W of the A5, 3-4 km E of Leighton Buzzard

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans

Historical Region: Hundred of Stabridge [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Manshead

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 13th century [base only] - 17th century[basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

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There is an entry for Tilsworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9724/tilsworth/] [accessed 23 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Early English period in this church. The Victoria County History (Bedfordshire, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The church of Tilsworth was granted some time after the Conquest to the convent of St. Giles in the Wood, Flamstead, [...] and was in the possession of the prioress in the 13th century. [...] It was valued in 1535 at £8 per annum [...] The earliest masonry still in situ is in the south and east walls of the chancel, and dates from the second half of the 13th century [...] The font has a 17th-century bowl with a 13th-century stem and the bases of four shafts which originally surrounded it." Noted in Pevsner (1968): "Font. Of cauldron shape, on an E[arly] E[nglish] four-shaft foot." The font is illustrated in the context of the church interior in a ca.1910 photograph in the Bedford Borough Council website entry for Tilsworth [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/Tilsworth/ListOfTilsworthVicars.aspx] [accessed 20 January 2010]. The basin has a large moulded upper rim but is otherwise plain; the columns of the base have moulded capitals and appear clustered to the central shaft; stands on a round plinth. It appears located at the west end of the nave, in the centre.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.90873, -0.585513

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 54′ 31.43″ N, 0° 35′ 7.85″ W

UTM: 30U 666081 5753642

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: cauldron-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: hexagonal dome on a thin flat round platform; finial; 17th-century?

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-10-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968