Font, Shilton
Shilton church is a mostly 14th/15th century building with a west tower and an unusual configuration of no aisle on the south side of the nave but a double one to the north; the outer aisle is a Victorian addition by George Gilbert Scott when he restored the church in 1865.
The interior is fairly dark with the south nave wall and north arcade leaning outwards dramatically (also an odd hollowed out piscina recess in the south east nave window recess). The fittings are mostly Victorian, but the pieces of tracery on the low chancel screen panelling are fragments of the 15th century rood screen. The stained glass is Victorian too, (the east window by Clayton & Bell, others by Hardman's) but two windows have 14th century elements, the west window in the tower with some fragmentary grisaille and red glass, whilst in the nave clerestorey are two shields of the Earl of Essex.
The church is usually kept locked outside of service times; I owed my first visit to the help of a kind churchwarden who unlocked for me. On this occasion my former colleagues from Norgrove Studios were working on a south nave window enabling me to revisit and give a short talk on the glass (in addition to much improving my photographic record).
Font, Shilton
Shilton church is a mostly 14th/15th century building with a west tower and an unusual configuration of no aisle on the south side of the nave but a double one to the north; the outer aisle is a Victorian addition by George Gilbert Scott when he restored the church in 1865.
The interior is fairly dark with the south nave wall and north arcade leaning outwards dramatically (also an odd hollowed out piscina recess in the south east nave window recess). The fittings are mostly Victorian, but the pieces of tracery on the low chancel screen panelling are fragments of the 15th century rood screen. The stained glass is Victorian too, (the east window by Clayton & Bell, others by Hardman's) but two windows have 14th century elements, the west window in the tower with some fragmentary grisaille and red glass, whilst in the nave clerestorey are two shields of the Earl of Essex.
The church is usually kept locked outside of service times; I owed my first visit to the help of a kind churchwarden who unlocked for me. On this occasion my former colleagues from Norgrove Studios were working on a south nave window enabling me to revisit and give a short talk on the glass (in addition to much improving my photographic record).