Elton nr. Stockton / Eligtune / Elleton
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken14 June 2006 by Hugh Mortimer [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/186068] [accessed 14 May 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 17963ELT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John
Church Address: Darlington Road, Elton, Stockton-on-Tees TS21 1AG
Site Location: Durham, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A66, 4 km WSW of Stockton, N of Long Newton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Durham
Historical Region: Stockton Ward
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the medieval 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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No entry found for this Elton in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Durham, vol. 3, 1928) notes on the church here: "The advowson was anciently an appurtenance of the manor, though it seems to have been in dispute as early as 1185 [...] The structure dates from the 12th century, but was almost entirely rebuilt in 1841 [...] The original 12th-century south doorway has been rebuilt inside the church [...] The font and the pulpit (which is of wrought iron) also dates from 1874." The VCH (ibid.) further reports: "The pedestal of the 1841 font is in the churchyard." There is no mention in the VCH entry of a medieval font here. The modern font, at the west end of the nave, south side, is of neo-Norman table-top design, a square basin decorated with several symbols and motifs, raised on a broad central shaft and four slender colonnettes at the angles. [NB: we have no information on the mewdieval font].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 604836 6045895
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.