Tilton on the Hill / Tiletone / Tillintone / Tilton-on-the-Hill
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design element - patterns - scalloped
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Russ Hamer, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 September 2012 by Russ Hamer [www.panoramio.com/photo/79407973] [accessed 27 August 2015]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Russ Hamer, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 September 2012 by Russ Hamer [www.panoramio.com/photo/79407973] [accessed 27 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Russ Hamer, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 September 2012 by Russ Hamer [www.panoramio.com/photo/79407973] [accessed 27 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12435TIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only] [modern base] [composite font], Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Main Street, Tilton, Leicestershire LE7 9LR, UK
Site Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B6047, 16 km SSW of Melton Mowbray
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Goscote [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font / composite font (the present font has a new base [cf. FontNotes]) -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Tilton [-on-the-Hill] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK7405/tilton-on-the-hill/] [accessed 27 August 2015], two of which mention a priest, but not a church in them, though there probably were there. A font here is noted and illustrated in Upcott (1818) [NB: Upcott gives the placename simply as 'Tilton']. Described in Pevsner (1984): "Font. Norman, with scalloping at the foot of the bowl, though the base is new." The font consists of a polygonal basin that can be described either as square with larger chamfered corners, or irregular octagonal; there is a moulding below the upper rim; the lower sides have broad and narrow scallops alternating all around, with projected trumpets towards a double roll moulding; the base is a cluster of a broad central shaft and eight outer colonnettes, to a thin octagonal lower base; later? / modern? [cf. supra].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 641856 5834629
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.643063, -0.903353
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 38′ 35.03″ N, 0° 54′ 12.07″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: Modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Bonser, G.G., "St Mary Magdalene, Sutton-in-Ashfield", XVI, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1912
- Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818, [vol. III, part I, p. 514 and pl. lxvii / [http://books.google.com/books?id=gLwuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=upcott+1818&source=web&ots=lJwT-K00zU&sig=oVT6Kc6G03vqjYf4Synuk_Aek9w#PPP15,M1] [accessed 29 September 2007]