Hillmorton / Mortone

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/hillmorton---st-john-the-baptist.html] [accessed 27 January 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/hillmorton---st-john-the-baptist.html] [accessed 27 January 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/hillmorton---st-john-the-baptist.html] [accessed 27 January 2015]

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view of church interior - plan

Image Source: plan by Hillmorton Parochial Church Council [www.stjohnhillmorton.org.uk/aboutus.htm] [accessed 27 January 2015]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: only the plain bucket-shaped basin is original

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/hillmorton---st-john-the-baptist.html] [accessed 27 January 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19686HIL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: The Locks, Hillmorton, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 4PP

Country Name: England

Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A428, SE of Rugby

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry

Historical Region: Hundred of Marton [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Knightlow

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Aidan McRae Thomson, of Warwickshire Churches [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com], for his photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are five entries for Hillmorton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP5373/hillmorton/] [accessed 27 January 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 6, 1951) notes: "The first recorded presentation, by Thomas de Astley of his brother Philip, is undated, but occurred before 1265 [...] The earliest architectural remains are of the early or mid-13th century [...] The 12th-century font is a plain inverted truncated cone standing on a modern base." The Parish web site [www.stjohnhillmorton.org.uk/aboutus.htm] [accessed 27 January 2015] notes: "Dating from the 12th Century, the font (25) was once discarded in 1777 and replaced with a marble basin on an iron stand. We are fortunate that the original font was retrieved from the churchyard rubbish heap in 1849 and replaced in its present position. The font cover is from c. 1880."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 21′ 53.82″ N, 1° 12′ 50.8″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern / 1880

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-01-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.