Shilton nr. Coventry / Scelftone

Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2015
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view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the modern font is partially visible at the far [west] end, right [north] side of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/shilton---st-andrew.html] [accessed 6 February 2015]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font and cover [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/shilton---st-andrew.html] [accessed 6 February 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 19706SHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Shilton, West Midlands, CV7 9JJ
Country Name: England
Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the B4065, E of the M69, N of the A46, NE of Ansty, 9 km NE of Coventry
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Bumbelowe [in Domesday]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Aidan McRae Thomson, of Warwickshire Churches [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com], for his photographs of this church and modern font
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Shilton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP4084/shilton/] [accessed 6 February 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 6, 1951) notes; Shilton was originally a chapelry of Bulkington, and in the possession of Leicester Abbey by the gift of Roger de Waterville, but was with Ansty transferred to Coventry Priory at an early date in return for an annual payment of £10; [...] it was among the chapels 'restored' to the priory by Earl Ranulf between 1140 and 1153. [...] About 1410 it was put on record that the chapels of Ansty and Shilton were never members of St. Michael's, Coventry, but were a rectory in themselves, Ansty being the principal chapel and Shilton dependent thereon [...] The church [...] dates from the late 13th century, but was rebuilt in the 14th and again in the 15th century, when the tower was built. In 1865 an outer north aisle was added under the supervision of Sir Gilbert Scott [...] The font, standing in the north-west angle, is a modern one of red sandstone, octagonal, with quatrefoil panels on an octagonal stem, the lead-lined basin supported on carved female heads at each corner." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP4037884360] (1960) reports a "Heavily ornamented octagonal stone font" in this church, the modern font. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 12thC church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.456956, -1.40541
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 27′ 25.04″ N, 1° 24′ 19.48″ W
UTM: 30U 608348 5813060
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-02-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.