Willington / Welitone / Weltone / Wilitona / Wilton / Wylitone / Wylyngton
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Waymarking, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 11 January 2010 [www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=110c932f-f121-44b0-b07e-cec2e99170bf&gid=3] [accessed 16 September 2015]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2013
Image Source: photograph taken December 1998 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3263854] [accessed 16 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 February 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/330021] [accessed 16 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 17688WIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Address: Church End, Willington, Bedfordshire, MK44
Site Location: Bedfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A603, W of Moggerhanger, between Bedford and Sandy
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Wichestanestou [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Wixamtree
Additional Comments: desappeared font? (one from the early 12th-century church)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Willington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL1149/willington/] [accessed 16 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "Simon de Beauchamp, grandson of Hugh de Beauchamp, granted the advowson of Willington Church to Newnham Priory as part of his endowment of that foundation in 1166. [...] The [present] church is a very interesting example of the latest phases of Gothic work [...] Under the west tower is a modern panelled octagonal font."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 678970 5779427
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.136331, -0.384855
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 8′ 10.79″ N, 0° 23′ 5.48″ W
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.