Wyton / Witton / Wittona

INFORMATION

FontID: 18010WYT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [aka St. Margaret's]
Church Patron Saints: All Saints [St. Margaret?]
Church Location: 5 Rectory Lane, Houghton, Cambridgeshire PE28 2AQ
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located adjacent to Houghton, 3 km NW of St. Ives, 6 km E of Huntingdon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire -- Hundred of Hurstingstone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Notes: A note in the 'Church Restoration' section of The Ecclesiologist (No. 5, September 1845: 239) gives the church at Wyton as "St. Margaret" (and the county as "Hants."
The Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol. 2, 1932) notes: "A priest is recorded in the Domesday Survey (1086) at Wyton, but no priest is mentioned under Houghton. [...] It was customary until the last century for a single incumbent to serve the two churches, which were sometimes styled 'the church of Wittona and Hoctona.' [...] Although the church is mentioned in Domesday Book (1086) nothing of that period remains; but the western half of the south wall of the chancel, and the south wall of the nave are thick and probably of 12th-century date. [...] The font has a modern bowl on a 15th-century stem and base."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 695554 5801621

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-04-24 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.