Chilton / Chiltone / Ciltone / Schelton
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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![with the font and cover in the nackground, left [south] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150509003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: with the font and cover in the nackground, left [south] side
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![with the font and cover in the foreground, right [south] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150509002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: with the font and cover in the foreground, right [south] side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 Juky 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/333885] [accessed 6 May 2015]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 Juky 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/333887] [accessed 6 May 2015]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 Juky 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/333887] [accessed 6 May 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 Juky 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/333887] [accessed 6 May 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01364CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century [composite font?], late Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the centre of the nave, just W of the S entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Dorton Road, Chilton, Buckinghamshire HP18 9NA
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B4011, 6-7 km N of Thame (Oxon.), 13 km W of Aylesbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Ixhill [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Ashendon
Additional Comments: damaged font / composite font? [cf. FontNotes] -- disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Chilton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6811/chilton/] [accessed 6 May 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is noted in Parker (1850): Font D[ecorated], with good bold mouldings." Sheahan (1862) notes: "The font is octangular and cup-shaped". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period, a noteworthy example. The RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912) dates the whole font to the 15th century, but suggests "base probably earlier than bowl". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "he church was granted by Walter Giffard to the abbey of Nutley [i.e., in the 12th century] [...] The north and east walls of the nave may be built on parts of the foundations of a 12th-century church, but the only detail of this period now surviving is a fragment reset in the south transept doorway. [...] The font is of the 15th century, and has an octagonal bowl on a moulded round stem and base." The RCAHM (ibid.) notes also a holy-water stoup on the east side of the south door, "recess with square head", but gives no date for it.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 637527 5740554
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.798911, -1.005535
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 47′ 56.08″ N, 1° 0′ 19.93″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 187
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of the historical monuments in Buckinghamshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1912-, p. 104, 105
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850, [entry no.] 151
- Sheahan, James Joseph, History and topography of Buckinghamshire, comprising a general survey of the county, preceded by an epitome of the early history of Great Britain, London; Pontefract: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; William Edward Bonas [...], 1862, p. 353