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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/pilton-st-nicholas/] [accessed 21 July 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking southwest
Scene Description: the restored font and its modern cover are visible at the far end of the nave, oposite the south entranceway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/pilton-st-nicholas/] [accessed 21 July 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 14522PIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Lyndon Road, Pilton, Rutland. LE15 9NT
Country Name: England
Location: Rutland, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located between Lyndon and Morcott
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Wrandike
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Date: ca. 1210?
Century and Period: 13th century (early?) [restored], Early English [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], for his photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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No entry found for this Pilton in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Rutland, vol. 2, 1935) notes: "The whole building may have been erected originally at the beginning of the 13th century, but it is not unlikely that the nave represents an aisleless 12th-century church to which, about 1200–10, an aisle was added, the south wall being pierced by the existing arcade of two bays. [...] The font is probably contemporary with the nave arcade, and consists of a plain octagonal bowl on a large cylindrical stem and eight surrounding shafts with moulded capitals and bases, all very much restored".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.612578, -0.650081
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 36′ 45.28″ N, 0° 39′ 0.29″ W
UTM: 30U 659100 5831767
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: mo
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-04-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.