Silchester No. 1 / Calleva Atrebatum / Cilcestre / Ciltestere / Scilchestre / Silcestre / Sylkchester
Image copyright © [in the public domain]
CC-PD-Mark / PD-old-75-1996 / PD-1996 (with a reason)
Results: 4 records
view of church exterior in context - plan
Scene Description: Ground plan of Calleva Atrebatum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calleva_Atrebatum_plan.png] [accessed 1 August 2018]
Copyright Instructions: PD Britannica / PD Gutenberg
view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Foundation of Romano-British church from the east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a ca. 1929 B&W photograph by Charles Cotton [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Foundations_of_the_Romano-British_Church_at_Silchester_from_the_East.jpg] [accessed 1 August 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-PD-Mark / PD-old-75-1996 / PD-1996 (with a reason)
view of church interior - plan
Scene Description: basilica plan in Calleva Atrebatum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilica_7.png] [accessed 1 August 2018
Copyright Instructions: PD Britannica / PD Gutenberg
view of church interior - plan
Scene Description: 4th-5thC Christian basilica plan in Calleva Atrebatum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilica_21.png] [accessed 1 August 2018]
Copyright Instructions: PD Britannica / PD Gutenberg
INFORMATION
FontID: 11782SIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font3?
Church/Chapel: Early Christian basilica
Church Location: Silchester, Hampshire RG7 2HP, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located just E of Tadley, 8-9 km N of Basingstoke [the ruins of Calleva Atrebatum are located beneath and to the W of the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, which lies just within the town wall and about 1 mile (1.6 km) to the E of the modern village of Silchester]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Holdshot / Holdshott
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 4th - 5th century, Early Christian? / Anglo-Roman?
Cognate Fonts: possibly the font at Richborough (Kent), of the same period
Font Notes:
Click to view
There are two entries for Silchester [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU6261/silchester/] [accessed 1 August 2018], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Bédoyère (2006) notes: some innovative reinterpretation of the excavated evidence has shown that the building was probably bigger than originally thought and enclosed a baptismal font." The site [www.rdg.ac.uk/AcaDepts/la/silchester/publish/guide/public.php], in the description of the church in its 'Silchester Roman Town: a Guide to Silchester', notes: "Just 3.5 m to the east of the porch is a tiled area, 1.2 m square, which has been interpreted as the setting for a baptismal font".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.357222, -1.0825
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 21′ 26″ N, 1° 4′ 57″ W
UTM: 30U 633509 5691296
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-06-03 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Bédoyère, Guy de la, Roman Britain: a new history, London: Thames & Hudson, 2006