Shillington / Schutlingdone / Scytlingedune / Sethlindone / Shetelyngton / Shitlington / Shutlyngdene / Suthlingdon / Shytlington

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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a square - 8

Scene Description: probably of the late restoration of the basin

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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UB01: design element - architectural - arch or window - 8

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view of church exterior - north side

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10615SHI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [aka Cathedral of the Chilterns]

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Church Street, Shillington, Hertfordshire, SG5 3LH [postal code in Herts.]

Country Name: England

Location: Bedfordshire, East

Directions to Site: Located 4 km SW of Henlow, near the county border with Hertfordshire

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans [formerly in the diocese of Ely]

Historical Region: Hundred of Clifton

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

Century and Period: 14th - 16th century[restored], Perpendicular [altered?]

Church Notes: aka Cathedral of the Chilterns

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Noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of a group of octagonal fonts made mostly of Totternhoe stone: "Shitlington [sic] has quatrefoils on the sides". The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "There is no mention of a church in Shillington at Domesday, but the rectory and advowson belonged to the abbey [ Ramsey Abbey] from the earliest times. [...] The [present] building is one of great architectural merit, and of unusual design [...] It seems to have been begun from the east about the year 1300, without reference to any previously existing building on the site, unless the difference in width between the aisles is to be attributed to some arrangement of the older church." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish. In Pevsner (1968) as a font of the Perpendicular period. The font is of a design common in the Perpendicular period, octagonal all over; the basin has been heavily restored, and the quatrefoils appear to be part of the restoration; by contrast, the octagonal pedestal base and lower base appear to have been mostly untouched since the original carving; the plinth appears late-medieval as well. The tallish wooden cover, octagonal and crocketed along the arrises, is modern, probably Victorian.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 681276 5762648

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone [chalk / Totternhoe stone]

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?

Material: wood, oak

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-05-09 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968