Hilton nr. Dorchester / Eltone / Helton

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16 arches

Scene Description: four on each side of the square basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 September 2008 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/986287] [accessed 17 December 2019]

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view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2010 by Bashereyre [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HiltonChurch.JPG] accessed 17 December 2019]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 August 2019 by Hugh Llewelyn [https://flickr.com/photos/58433307@N08/48642503818] [accessed 17 December 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 September 2008 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/986287] [accessed 17 December 2019]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 September 2008 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/986287] [accessed 17 December 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11317HIL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Village Rd, Hilton, Dorchester DT11 0DG, UK -- Tel.: +44 1300 348211

Country Name: England

Location: Dorset, South West

Directions to Site: Located just SE of Ansty, N of the A354, 15-20 km NE of Dorchester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Salisbury

Historical Region: Hundred of Hilton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Hilton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST7803/hilton/] [accessed 17 December 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874) notes: "the font, a large square slab of Purbeck marble with four circular arches carved on each face in low relief." Noted in Long (1923) as a baptismal basin of the Norman period raised on a modern base. Mee (1939) writes: "the oldest thing in the church is the font, made by the Normans." In Newman & Pevsner (1972): "Font. Purbeck marble, square, with four shallow blank arches to each side; C12." Only the basin is original; the base and lower base are modern. Illustrated in The Dorset Historic Churches Trust web site entry [http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/hilton.htm]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.825897, -2.311418

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 49′ 33.23″ N, 2° 18′ 41.11″ W

UTM: 30U 548498 5630690

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone [Purbeck marble]

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat, with wooden cross finial

REFERENCES

Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973

Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; r["References"]

Mee, Arthur, The King's England. Dorset: Thomas Hardy's Country, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972