Chilton Cantelo / Citerne

There is an entry for Chilton [Cantelo] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/ST5722/chilton-cantelo/] [accesssed 6 May 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Drawing of a font in the Harvey Pridham Drawings of English Fonts (MS 56). [Folder Number, Item Description]. University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept., done by Harvey Pridham in July 1888 accompanied by the following description: "All circular, except the base, which is square. A Perspective drawing of the latter in sketch book. Inner bowl circular, lead lining turned over margin and 1 3/8 inch down face; raked sides, flat plan: 13 inches deep, 4 3/4 margin; irregular. Position, on West side of South porch, in the nave. Modern cover." Wade & Wade (1929) mention "the massive font" of this church. The English Heritage National Monumental Records (IoE no. 262619) [www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=262619] [accessed 11 March 2008] describes "an early C12 font with plain bowl and shaft and simple scalloped base complete with early lead lining". Not mentioned in Pevsner (1958). Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2015): "The only Romanesque feature [of this church] is the font. [...] The font, of Hamstone or similar, is sited at the NE angle of SW part of church. It consists of a tub-shaped bowl, chamfered in its lower part, on a cylindrical stem that stands on a square, slightly bulbous base marked at each corner with a fan of 6 grooves. This stands on a plinth of two blocks, that under the font being square. The large bowl shows fairly regular horizontal tooling. The fine lead lining (cf. the neighbouring parish church of Marston Magna) comes up to and over the rim and down the outside. The bowl’s internal sides taper before curving slightly into a flattish bottom. There are two metal brackets on the rim, which itself is relatively broad (again, cf. Marston Magna). The condition of the font is good."