Pilton / Piltone

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 8 arches

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 March 2009 by Tony Ethridge [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/352054/photo66.html] [accessed 29 April 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 March 2009 by Tony Ethridge [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/352054/photo66.html] [accessed 29 April 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of base

Scene Description: could this be an upside-down basin re-used as base?

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 March 2009 by Tony Ethridge [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/352054/photo66.html] [accessed 29 April 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - west tower

Image Source: digital photograph 2004 by Judith White

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 28 August 2004)

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph 2004 by Judith White

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 28 August 2004)

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 March 2009 by Tony Ethridge [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/352054/photo66.html] [accessed 29 April 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 10014PIL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: The Rectory, Pilton, Somerset BA4 4DX, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the A361, 10 km E of Glastonbury

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Whitstone [in Domesday]

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

Century and Period: [composite], [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Judith White for the photographs of this site, and to Tony Ethridge [http://www.worldisround.com/articles/352054/photo66.html] for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Pilton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST5840/pilton/] [accessed 21 July 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). Tony Ethridge [www.worldisround.com/articles/352054/photo66.html] [accessed 29 April 2009] notes: "The medieval Font was lost for many years. It was discovered in the late 19th century being used as a horse trough and was returned to its present position". Medieval baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with a protruding upper rim with a crenellated band below it; the vertical sides are decorated with a blind arcade of round arches, one per face; it is raised on an octagonal pedestal base, plain and rather crude, and an octagonal plinth with kneeling stone; plain wooden cover, modern. Basin and base do not seem to belong together, and the lower piece looks suspiciously like an up-turned basin itself.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.165, -2.5898

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 9′ 54″ N, 2° 35′ 23.28″ W

UTM: 30U 528681 5668254

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: plain and modern