Pilton / Pilchetone [Domesday] / Pilkethon / Pilketon / Pilketun / Pilkintona

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view of church exterior - southwest view

church and manor house
Scene Description: church and manor house
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nigel Stickells, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 Janury 2007 by Nigel Stickells [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/322799] [accessed 16 May 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 01764PIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & All Saints? [earlier All Saints?]
Church Address: Pilton, Northamptonshire PE8 5SN
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A605, 5 km SSW of Oundle, 25 km SW of Peterborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Navisford
Font Notes:
There is an entry for this Pilton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL0284/pilton/] [accessed 21 July 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list this as a baptismal font of the early Decorated period. [NB: Whellan (1849) does not mention the font but has the church dedication as St. Mary's]. The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 3, 1930) notes: "The church of St. Mary and All Saints [...] rebuilt in 1864, and an extensive restoration of the church in 1874–5 involved a large amount of rebuilding, but the reconstruction appears to have followed the lines of a 12th and 13th century church, considerable portions of which remain. [...] The font is octagonal, with a band of carved foliage on the underside of the bowl, on an octagonal pedestal with moulded base and griffes at the angles." In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Octagonal, with leaf decoration on the foot. Not good."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 670251 5813917
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.448873, -0.494698
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 26′ 55.94″ N, 0° 29′ 40.91″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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. 211
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 373
  • Whellan, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Northamptonshire, comprising a general survey of the county, and a history of the Diocese of Peterborough: with separate [...], London: Whittaker & Co., Ave Maria Lane, 1849, p. 774