Colton nr. Ulverston / Coleton / Coulton

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: MOD FONT IN CNXT digital photograph taken 19 February 2015 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4478507] [accessed 12 April 2019] IS THE FONT MODERN OR DOES IT APPEAR THAT WAY? SEE FONTNOTES MOD FONT digital photograph taken 19 February 2015 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4478534] [accessed 12 April 2019]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Yohan euan o4, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2009 by Yohan euan o4 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colton_Church.JPG] [accessed 12 April 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Richardson, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2011 by Tim Richardson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2546477] [accessed 12 April 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the baptismal font is partially visible at the far [west] end, left [south] side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2015 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4478507] [accessed 12 April 2019]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: "The old font, which is octagonal in plan and of red sandstone, apparently of early 16th-century date, was rechiselled and is now restored to use." [cf. VCH entry in FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2015 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4478534] [accessed 12 April 2019]

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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 February 2015 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4478507] [accessed 12 April 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22090COL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: Colton, Ulverston LA12 8HF, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Cumbria, North West
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A590 between Newby Bridge and Ulverston, between the southern ends of Windermere and Coniston Water
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle
Historical Region: Hundred of Lonsdale -- Hundred of Amounderness -- formerly Lancashire?
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1530?
Century and Period: 16th century(early?), Late Perpendicular
No individual entry for this Colton found in the Domesday survey. Whitaker (1823) writes: "In the Liger Regis, the church of Coltin is stated to be dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and have belonged to Furness Abbey", suggesting that it may have been a chapel of ease to one of the its churches. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 8, 1914) notes: "Nothing is known of the origin of the chapel at Colton. It is mentioned in a complaint against the Abbot of Furness in 1530 [...] The building may have been erected about 1530 on the site of an older building, (fn. 31) while the tower may have been added at the beginning of the 17th century, [...] but is of the same plain character as the rest of the building, having nothing in its appearance suggesting a later date. [...] In dismantling the church in 1889 the bowl of the ancient font was discovered upside down, used as the base of an 18th-century font then in use bearing the initials of the four churchwardens of 1717–18. [...] The old font, which is octagonal in plan and of red sandstone, apparently of early 16th-century date, was rechiselled and is now restored to use." The present font in this church appears modern, but it must be the re-chislled one mentioned in the VCH entry above.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.2655, -3.048
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 15′ 55.8″ N, 3° 2′ 52.8″ W
UTM: 30U 496874 6013063

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (red)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round with flat cross atop and metal handle; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-04-12 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, An history of Richmondshire, in the North Riding of the County of York [...], with illustrations by J.M.W. Turner, London: [s.n.], 1823