Dutton / Duntune

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coat of arms - 3

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 16925DUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Dutton Chapel [disappeared?]
Country Name: England
Location: Cheshire, North West
Directions to Site: Located off the A533, 3 km E of Runcorn, 8 km E of Frodsham, 9 km NW of Northwich, NE of Chester
Historical Region: Hundred of Tunendune [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Bucklow
Century and Period: Late Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes:
There are three entries for this Dutton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SJ5779/dutton/] [accessed 19 March 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. In his entry for "Poosey, within the domain, but not in ye Township of Dutton", Gastrell (1845- ) notes: "Upon a Font Stone in ye Chap.[el] of Dutton [are] 3 Coats [of arms]", and cites "MS. Hulm. 95. 1. 16. f. 155." as source [NB: the chapel of Dutton -not the one at Pussey- is described in Gastrell as "beautiful and fitted up by L[or]d Kilmorey in Charl. Ist's time]. [NB: we have no information on the present whereabouts of the heraldic font form Dutton chapel, or on the chapel itself]. Kimg, Smith and Webb's History of Cheshire (vol. 2, 1778: 695) mentions that the chapel of Dutton, still standing in 1666, had become a "domestic chapel within the manor house at Dutton; this same source mentions the "Poosey" chapel as well, "now ruinate and in decay".

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 524205 5906566

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-03-19 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Gastrell, Francis, Right Rev., Notitia cestriensis, of historcal notices of the Diocese of Chester [...], Cheshire: Printed for the Chetham Society, 1845-1850