Chilton nr. Didcot / Childatun / Childestuna / Chiltuna / Chiltune / Cildatun / Cilletone / Ciltone
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view of font and cover in context
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view of church exterior
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2009 by Alexander P. Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1320302] [accessed 31 October 2011]
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view of church interior - chancel
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2009 by Alexander P. Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1320460] [accessed 31 October 2011]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2009 by Alexander P. Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1320495] [accessed 31 October 2011]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 17703CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [formerly All Hallows]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by a pillar of the arcade that separates the nave from the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Hill, Chilton, Oxfordshire, OX11 0RZ
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SW of Didcot, in the Vale of White Horse
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Nakedthorn [in Domesday] -- formerly in Berkshire (until 1974) -- Hundred of Compton
Additional Comments: altered font (modern lower base)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for this Chilton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4885/chilton/] [accessed 6 May 2015], but neither mentions cleric or church in it. Hewett & Hewett (1844) write: "the font is remarkably rude." Described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "Font plain rude octagon, probably Decorated." The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The oldest part of the present building is the late 12th-century nave, originally that of a small aisleless church. Early in the 13th century the south aisle was added and in the 14th century the chancel was rebuilt. The tower was not built until 1847. [...] A plain nine-sided font of 12th-century date is still in use. The base upon which it stands is modern." No font is mentioned in the CRSBI (2015) entry for this church, which includes a blocked north doorway, a nave and a capital, all of the 12th century. The font here consists of a nine-sided basin of plain slightly tapering sides, with a narrower stem, though it appears to be part of the same block, and a round lower base; this is probably the modern part referred to in the VCH entry above. The present nine-sided wooden cover is flat and plain, modern. The font is raised on a quadrangular p;inth that is attached to one of the pillars of the arcade that divides the nave from the south aisle.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 618134 5714635
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.570395, -1.295409
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 34′ 13.42″ N, 1° 17′ 43.47″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: enneagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: enneagonal (nine sides)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- "Church notes, chiefly in Berks, Wilts, and Oxford, with a few in Somerset and Gloucestershire", 44, Archaeological Journal, 1887, pp. 43-50; 185-193; 291-303; 397-402; p. 186
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Hewett, William, The History and Antiquities of the Hundred of Compton, Berks, being a topographical [...], Reading: Published and sold by John Snare, 1844, p. 18