Elton nr. Bingham / Ailetone / Elton on the Hill

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design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

design element - motifs - floral - ball-flower

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Michael and All Angels, Elton-on-the-Hill. The church has 12th century origins but was much changed during the restoration of 1855-7. At this time the outside was rendered to resemble ashlar, as seen today".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2014 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3925819] [accessed 13 May 2018]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 November 2005 by Bob Danylec [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/84780] [accessed 13 May 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph in the Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project [http://southwellchurches.history.nottingham.ac.uk/elton/hpics.php] [accessed 13 May 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with the font and cover at the far end

Image Source: digital photograph in the Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project [http://southwellchurches.history.nottingham.ac.uk/elton/hpics.php] [accessed 13 May 2018]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Sketch of the font, c.1803", by William Stretton [cf. FontNotes] -- it has the measurements of the former octagonal font; was it re-cut into today's round font?

Image Source: digital image of ca. 1803 sketch in the Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project [http://southwellchurches.history.nottingham.ac.uk/elton/hpics.php] [accessed 13 May 2018]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: is this the re-cut wersion of the old octagonal font? and the base? [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph in the Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project [http://southwellchurches.history.nottingham.ac.uk/elton/hpics.php] [accessed 13 May 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01809ELT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels

Church Location: A52, Elton-on-Hill, Nottingham NG13, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A52, 7 km SE of Bingham (dir. Grantham). 24 km E of Nottingham

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham

Historical Region: Hundred of Bingham

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

Century and Period: 13th century [re-carved?] / 14th century, Early English [altered] / Modern?

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Elton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK7738/elton/] [accessed 13 May 2018]; it mentions a church in it. The Gentleman's Magazine [vol. CCXI, October 1861: 391] reports of an excursion to Fotheringhay on 29 July 1861 by members of the Archaeological Institute, following their Congress at Peterborough, and includes a description of this font: "The font is either Decorated or has undergone alterations in that style; but it is very clumsy and ugly. A plain octagonal bowl rests on four rude shafts of the same form, surrounding a central one; they have floriated capitals and square abaci, except one, which is round and without a capital, but which seems to be a later patch-work. This arrangement usually implies an earlier date, and in this case, is probably a portion of an older font. The neck is adorned with the ball-flower, and a very large ornament of that kind rests on each of the small shafts, making a sort of squinch to the subordinate faces of the bowl. One of these is left in the block." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Cox (1912) writes: "Plain round font has circular base; sadly scraped, but is old and probably early I3th cent. Coped Jacobean font cover lies (1904) discarded under tower among dirt and rubbish." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK7673138802] mentions no font in it. The entry for the fittings in this church in the Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project [http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/elton/hfitting.php] [accessed 13 May 2018] notes: "The plain round stone font has a circular base. At some point in the 19th century it replaced an octagonal font sketched by William Stretton in 1803", and includes an image of the said sketch.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.940833, -0.859722

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 56′ 27″ N, 0° 51′ 35″ W

UTM: 30U 643822 5867833

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: round [re-cut from octagonal?] (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round [re-cut from octagonal?]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912

Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927