Ilmington / Edelmitone / Ilmedone

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view of basin

Scene Description: notice the repaired and re-carved stone [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2023 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2006 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/100778] [accessed 8 January 2015]

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2023 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2009 by Kenneth Allen [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1468485] [accessed 8 January 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2023 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover in context - east side

Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2023 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover in context - west side

Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2023 by Colin Smith

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the font at the west end of the nave, by the tower arch; viewed from inside the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2009 by Kenneth Allen [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1468483] [accessed 8 January 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07287ILM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Valanders Lane, Ilmington, Warwickshire, CV36 4LJ, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located W of the A3400- A429 junction, 12-13 km S of Stratford-upon-Avon

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry

Historical Region: Hundred of Barcheston [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Kington

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 16th century[re-constructed? / composite font?] / 16th century, Medieval / Reformation [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Ilmimgton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2143/ilmington/] [accessed 8 January 2015], one of which, in the lordship of the Count of Meulan, mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Early English period. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 5, 1949) notes: "There was a priest, implying a church, at Ilmington in 1086 [...] The building dates from about the middle of the 12th century, when it had a chancel and a nave of the present size. The west tower was the first addition, late in the same century. [...] The font has a plain octagonal bowl with a hollowed under edge in a chamfer; it is probably of the early 16th century, but the upper half of the stem is a curious and rather clumsy attempt at quasi-Norman decoration by cutting engrailed, indented, and foiled edges in faces diminishing downwards, the lower half being splayed and the base chamfered." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP2096843470] notes: "Church. Mid C12 with late C12, early C13, mid C14, C15 and C16 alterations and additions. Restored 1846, 1911 and 1936 [...] Polygonal moulded font". The present font in this church, located in the centre of the aisle, just east of the tower arch, is anything but Early English, but an attempt at modification of a later vessel, as suggested in the VCH entry above. Modern wooden cover with crossed metal arches.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.088559, -1.69638

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 5′ 18.81″ N, 1° 41′ 46.97″ W

UTM: 30U 589316 5771690

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-01-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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