Tilton on the Hill / Tiletone / Tillintone / Tilton-on-the-Hill
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design element - motifs - moulding
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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 - 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
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]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 12435TIL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Main Street, Tilton, Leicestershire LE7 9LR
Country Name: England
Location: Leicestershire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the B6047, 16 km SSW of Melton Mowbray
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Goscote
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only] [modern base] [composite font], Medieval / composite
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church
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].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.643063,
-0.903353
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 38′ 35.03″ N,
0° 54′ 12.07″ W
UTM: 30U 641856 5834629
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
