Tilbrook / Tilebroc / Tillebrok
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/380802] [accessed 13 October 2011]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/380795] [accessed 13 October 2011]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the top of the font and its cover in the foreground, right (south) side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/380805] [accessed 13 October 2011]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10684TIL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: 26 Church Lane, Tilbrook, Cambridgeshire PE28 0JT
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located on the B645, 3 km S of Kimbolton, 25 km NE of Bedford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Stodden -- formerly Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side -- Reported in the churchyard ca. 1968; moved inside the church at a later date?
Century and Period: 14th - 16th century[restored?], Late Medieval [altered]
Church Notes: original church here 12thC
There is an entry for Tilbrook [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL0769/tilbrook/] [accessed 15 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The 12th-century church had a narrow chancel and a nave of which the east wall was about 12 ft. and the west wall about 6 ft. westward of those of the present nave, and the east end of the chancel was a few feet eastward of the present chancel arch. About 1180 a narrow north aisle was added and some forty years later extended eastward for the full length of the chancel, the chancel arch being entirely removed." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry, but a font appears on the plan of the church which illustrates the entry: it is located towards the west end of the nave, on the south side, by the entranceway. Noted in Pevsner (1968) (after GMcH): "Font. In the churchyard the bowl of a Perp font with quatrefoils". [NB: a font fitting the description of the one reported by Pevsner in the churchyard ca. 1968, is now inside the church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.310824,
-0.416065
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 18′ 38.96″ N,
0° 24′ 57.83″ W
UTM: 30U 676142 5798754
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, moulded; with ring handle
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-10-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968
