Hilton nr. Huntingdon / Hiltone / Hulton
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view of basin - interior
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font
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view of font in context
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10951HIL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church [formerly Chapel] of St. Mary Magdalene
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Church Location: Church End, Hilton, Cambridgeshire PE28 9NY
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off the B1040, 5 WSW of St. Ives, 7-8 km SE of Huntingdon, about 20 km WNW of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire -- Hundred of Toseland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end, N side
Century and Period: 15th century?, Late Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this church and font.
Church Notes: before 1873 it had been a chapelry of Fenstanton
The Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol. 2, 1932) notes: "The church, which was a chapelry to Fen Stanton, is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey (1086), but apparently there was a stone church here in the 12th century, of which small portions of walling and of impost moulding remain on each side of the chancel arch. The chancel arch and its responds are of the 13th century, and the tower of the late 14th century, but the rest of the church is wholly of 15th-century date. The church was restored in 1850 and 1889. [...] The 15th-century font is a plain octagon on an octagonal stem and base." The batismal font in this church consists of a plain octagonal basin with a chamfered underbowl, raised on a thin pedestal base with splaying lower base, both octagonal and as plain as the basin itself; although devoid of any decoration, the font probably dates to the major re-building of this church in the 15th century [cf. supra]; the font is now located in the east end of the nave, against one of the pillars of the arcade that divides the north aisle and the nave, probably not in its original location.
COORDINATES
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-04-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
