Niton No. 1 / Crab Niton / Crip Niton / Neeton / Neighton / Neuton / Newton Regis / Nyton
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view of font and cover
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3156328] [accessed 14 February 2020]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3156170] [accessed 14 February 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2012 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3156328] [accessed 14 February 2020]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06764NIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century [basin only], Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, against one of the pillars
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Church St / Pan Ln, Niton, Isle of Wight PO38 2BS, UK -- Tel.: +44 1983 731922
Site Location: Isle of Wight, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the southernmost area of the island, in Binnel Bay, near St. Catherine's Point
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Portsmouth
Historical Region: Hundred of East Medine / Hundred of Bowcombe [in Domesday] -- formerly Hampshire
Additional Comments: altered font? (the base is probably a later addition)
Font Notes:
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There is a multiple-place entry for Niton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SZ5076/niton/] [accessed 14 February 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) lists a baptismal font of the Norman period here. Described in Cox (1911): "an early Norman font, with cable moulding round the circular bowl." The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 5, 1912) notes: "The oldest part [of the church], the nave, may have been part of the original 11th-century structure, but this is difficult to determine, as at the end of the 12th century a north aisle was added and early in the 13th a south aisle, thus obliterating any earlier features [...] The registers are in nine volumes; baptisms and burials begin 1559"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. Noted in Lloyd & Pevsner (2006): "Norman, of cauldron type, with a rope moulding at the top." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SZ5052176771] notes: "Parish church. Nave C11, chancel C13 lengthened in C14 when south porch was also built. C15 south chapel, south aisle and tower spire added in C17. North aisle rebuilt in 1864 on the site of C13 north aisle which had been demolished in the C15. [...] Norman font of cauldron shape with rope moulding at the top." [cf. Index entry for Niton No. 2 for a possible second font in this locality]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 621222 5605447
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.588333, -1.2875
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 35′ 18″ N, 1° 17′ 15″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain, with ring handle; modern
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. 200
- Cox, John Charles, Isle of Wight: its churches and religious houses, London: G. Allen & Sons, 1911, p. 18, 114 / [http://www.archive.org/stream/isleofwightitsch00coxjuoft/isleofwightitsch00coxjuoft_djvu.txt] [accessed 11 May 2009]
- Lloyd, David W., The Isle of Wight, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, p. 192