Chesterton nr. Alwalton / Cestretone / Cestretune
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2466133] [accessed 23 June 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14246CHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Oundle Road, Chesterton, Cambridgeshire PE7 3UF
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A1, just NW of Orton Waterville, near Alwalton, W of Yaxley, in the western reaches of Peterborough [***NOT TO BE MISTAKEN WITH THE OTHER CHESTERTON IN THIS COUNTY, NEAR CAMBRIDGE]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Normancross [in Domesday] -- formerly Huntingdonshire
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for this Chesterton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL1295/chesterton/] [accessed 23 June 2016], one of which mentions a priest and a church in it. The Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol. 3, 1936) notes: "The church is mentioned in the Domesday Survey (1086), but no part of this early church remains"; it further notes that the old church was added on in the 12th through the 14th centuries, and that it "was restored in 1841 and 1906 [...] The font is of poor 18th-century design". [NB: we have no information on the original font of this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.544797, -0.339522
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 32′ 41.27″ N, 0° 20′ 22.28″ W
UTM: 30U 680401 5824961
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-01-29 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.