Elton nr. Peterborough / Adelintone / Adelintune / Aylton / Alyngton

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design element - architectural - arcade - cusped arches - blank

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10665ELT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Elton, Peterborough PE8 6RU, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A605, E of Fotherighay, SW of Peterborough, near the county border with Northamptonshire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Willybrook -- formerly Huntingdonshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1300?
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
There are three entries for this Elton [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL0893/elton/] [accessed 13 May 2018], one of which mentions a church in it. A font here is noted in Rose Fuller Whistler's The History of Ailington, Aylton, or Elton (London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1892) p. 17: "In the centre of the tower opening stands the font, supported by piers having a quatrefoil section, and standing upon square bases." Pevsner (1968) writes: "Font. Octagonal, with simple cusped blank arches, c.1300".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.529, -0.3965
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 31′ 44.4″ N, 0° 23′ 47.4″ W
UTM: 30U 676602 5823063

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

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