Marston Montgomery / Merchetune?
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Giles' church at Marston Montgomery is one of Derbyshire's oldest churches. The chancel arch is of Saxon origin and may well have been built before William I conquered England."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 December 2013 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3772734] [accessed 24 December 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - chancel arch and east side
![Source caption: "The chancel arch is of Saxon origin and may well have been built before William I conquered England." [NB: Historic England dates the chancel to the 13thC, as does Rickman (1825)]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1181224012_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "The chancel arch is of Saxon origin and may well have been built before William I conquered England." [NB: Historic England dates the chancel to the 13thC, as does Rickman (1825)]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 5 December 2013 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3772736] [accessed 24 December 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Hannan-Briggs, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 December 2013 by J. Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3772736] [accessed 24 December 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover - northeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber [www.thornber.net/england/] [accessed 15 March 2006]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 18 March 2006)
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig Thornber, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph by Craig Thornber [www.thornber.net] [accessed 15 March 2006]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 11582MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Location: Thurvaston Rd, Marston Montgomery, Ashbourne DE6 2FF, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A515, 7 km NE of Uttoxeter (Staffs.), 11 km SSW of Ashbourn, near the county border with Staffordshire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Derby
Historical Region: Hundred of Appletree
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Craig Thornber, of www.thornber.net, for the photograph of this font.
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Marston [Montgomery?] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK1337/marston-montgomery/] [accessed 24 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Pevsner (1978) notes: "Font. Plain Norman." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK1349437888] notes: "Parish church. C12 with C13 and C18 alterations, restored and extended 1875-6 by H St Aubyn. [...] C12 circular stone font." The font consists of a plain round basin with tapering side and a rounded underbol chamfer, raised on a a plain cylindrical stem and a moulded lower base; round plinth with kneeling stone; flat wooden cover with metal ornamentation. It looks like the only Norman components of this font are the basin and perhaps the stem. Illustrated in Craig Thornber [www.thornber.net/england/htmlfiles/marstonmont.html] [accessed 15 March 2006]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.9382, -1.80067
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 56′ 17.52″ N, 1° 48′ 2.41″ W
UTM: 30U 580601 5866069
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Derbyshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978