Ingleton / Inglestune / Inglestvne
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Results: 21 records
B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - with Joseph holding his tools
Scene Description: scene spread over five arches
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B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Massacre of the Innocents
![Herod, in the left arch, crowned and holding a sword in the right hand, while the left holds a child by the hair; in the next arch to the right one of his soldiers holds an ax; four children present: one held upside down by the soldier, another standing, two dead below; in the next arch to the right is a large tree, and in the following arch is a crowned rider pointing back [not clear whether the tree and the rider are part of the Massacre scene; this pair of arches is the only one without a columnar support]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/ING9800322_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Herod, in the left arch, crowned and holding a sword in the right hand, while the left holds a child by the hair; in the next arch to the right one of his soldiers holds an ax; four children present: one held upside down by the soldier, another standing, two dead below; in the next arch to the right is a large tree, and in the following arch is a crowned rider pointing back [not clear whether the tree and the rider are part of the Massacre scene; this pair of arches is the only one without a columnar support]
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B03: human figure - female
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B04: human figure - male - crowned - with fleur-de-lis
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B05: human figure - female - holding dove
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B06: human figure - male - on horseback - with fleur-de-lis
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B07: Old Testament - the time of Samson - the book of Judges - Samson - fighting a lion
Scene Description: the figure in the right arch could be part of the next scene: the Adoration of the Magi; here Joseph holding his tools
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B08: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings
Scene Description: spread over five arches: in the left is Joseph holding his tools, Madonna and Child; one crowned Magi in each of the three arches
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view of font
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view of font and cover in context - east side
Scene Description: in the south aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 July 2008 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889348] [accessed 27 November 2016]
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view of font
Scene Description: as shown in a ca. 1823 illustration
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Whitaker (1823) [https://archive.org/details/historyofrichmon12whit/page/343] [accessed 22 November 2019]
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New Testament - Virgin Mary - Madonna with Christ-child
Scene Description: part of the Adoration of the Magi scene
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches -double arches - intersecting arches - columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: all around
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human figure - head
Scene Description: many heads, all around the upper basin side, at the rim: some bearded
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design element - motifs - interlace
Scene Description: varied motifs or patterns in the spaces between the heads (erased or broken in some areas)
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Samson in the left arch; Joseph (?) in the right, the latter is part of the Adoration of the Magi scene
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view of basin - detail
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: two arches of the Massacre scene; to the right is a large tree which or may not be part of the scene
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00147ING
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1998-07-14
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, now in the S aisle [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church St, Ingleton, North Yorkshire LA6 3EP, UK
Site Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A65, 16 km NW of Settle, 25 km ENE of Lancaster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Amounderness [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font (the old basin was raised on a new base ca. 1970)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Ingleton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SD6972/ingleton/] [accessed 26 November 2016], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. The baptismal font here is noted "a very curious font" and illustrated in Whitaker (1823). Lewis (1831) notes this as a noteworthy baptismal font "of ancient date and curious workmanship". The Archaeological Journal (December 1844: 393 ) notes on a presentation to the Cttee. of the Brtish Archaeological Association by "Mr. Joseph Jackson, of Settle, Yorkshire […] presented a lithograph of a Norman font, lately rescued from obscurity in Ingleton church." Noted in Glynne's 18 August 1846 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font is a fine Norman one, of cylindrical form, surrounded by intersecting arches which contain figures" [NB: Glynne does not give the location of the font, but Butler (ibid.) adds: "The font has recently been moved to the centre of the south aisle."] Lewis' Directory of 1848 nmentions "a fine antique font". Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as "another good example of Norman work, with figures in arcading". Bond (1908) identifies that "Christ points to the wounds in His side". Described in Tyrrell-Green (1929). Morris (1932) describes it as a "good carved example [...] a very fine old Norm[an] font, with a kind of arcade, and with carvings of the Adoration, the Slaughter of the Innocents, the (?) Entry into Jerusalem (the Flight into Egypt), etc." Mee (1941) notes: "wonderful Norman font with sculptured scenes such as Christ's Entry into Jerusalem and the Massacre of the Innocents." Pevsner (1986 c1967) writes: "One of the best Norman fonts in the West Riding. Circular with twleve figures under intersected arches. A thirteenth arch contains a Tree of Life. Among the figures e.g. the three Magi and the Virgin and Child (frontal)." On-site notes: the basin is supported by a central pillar and four short columns; the base is modern, probably dating to the 19th century, when the church underwent restoration, according to local information; on the upper basin side there are fourteen heads and fourteen interlace motifs [NB: a local "Brief History" of the church written by M. Humphries in 1978, claims that the heads around the top are those of the dead children in the Massacre of the Innocent... This is very unlikely since several have full-grown beards]. Below these, an arcade of intersecting arches -that create 14 niches- encircles the bowl, a figure carved in each niche [Right to Left sequence]: First scene, arch 1)Adoration of the Magi with Joseph present holding his tools; 2)Madonna and Child enthroned; 3)1st King; 4)2nd King; 5)3rd King. The kings face out but walk from the right to the left. Second Scene: Massacre of the Innocents: arch 6)King with sword and child 7)soldier with axe and three dead bodies; 8)large tree; 9)crowned figure on horseback facing to the right but pointing backward to the previous slaughter. The next set of figures are unidentified. arch 10)female figure standing; 11)King holding fleur-de-lis; 12)female figure holding a bird [a dove?]; 13)male figure on horseback holding fleur-de-lis; 14)lion with a naked man on its back. Calverley (1899) in his description of the font at Torpenhow, mentions "the grotesque Herod below" on the Ingleton font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 534750 6000804
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.154156, -2.467896
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 9′ 14.96″ N, 2° 28′ 4.43″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin & base
Rim Thickness: 9-11 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 53 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 71-75 cm
Basin Depth: 40 cm
Basin Total Height: 61 cm
Height of Base: 50 cm [modern]
Font Height (less Plinth): 111 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round base with low octagonal pyramidal upper volume decorated with mouldings and carved circles; cross finial; modern
REFERENCES
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 436
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 165
- Calverley, William Slater, Notes on the early sculptured crosses, shrines and monuments in the present diocese of Carlisle, Kendal: T. Wilson, 1899, p. 271
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 230, 231
- Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 240
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, p. 632 [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51062] [accessed 14 February 2007]
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941, p. 202
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 66, 282
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967, p. 27, 180
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 59
- 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, vol. 2: 343