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 - parallel - 2
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken April 1995 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2219429] [accessed 13 May 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken April 1995 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2219428] [accessed 13 May 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10665ELT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1300?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Elton, Peterborough PE8 6RU, UK
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 676602 5823063
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.529, -0.3965
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 31′ 44.4″ N, 0° 23′ 47.4″ W
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, p. 238