Ingleton / Inglestune / Inglestvne

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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

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 July 1998 by BSI

B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Massacre of the Innocents

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]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 July 1998 by BSI

B03: human figure - female

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 July 1998 by BSI

B04: human figure - male - crowned - with fleur-de-lis

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 July 1998 by BSI

B05: human figure - female - holding dove

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 July 1998 by BSI

B06: human figure - male - on horseback - with fleur-de-lis

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 July 1998 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 July 1998 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 July 1998 by BSI

Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child

Scene Description: part of the Adoration of the Magi scene

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 July 1998 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches -double arches - intersecting arches - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: all around

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 July 1998 by BSI

design element - motifs - interlace

Scene Description: varied motifs or patterns in the spaces between the heads (erased or broken in some areas)

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 July 1998 by BSI

human figure - head

Scene Description: many heads, all around the upper basin side, at the rim: some bearded

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 July 1998 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 July 1998 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 July 1998 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 July 1998 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 October 2010 by Ashley Dace [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2141606] [accessed 27 November 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 July 1998 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 July 2008 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889352] [accessed 27 November 2016]

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view of font

Scene Description: as shown in a ca. 1823 illustration

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Whitaker (1823) [https://archive.org/details/historyofrichmon12whit/page/343] [accessed 22 November 2019]

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 14 July 1998 by BSI

view of font and cover in context - east side

Scene Description: in the south aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 July 2008 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889348] [accessed 27 November 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 00147ING

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church St, Ingleton, North Yorkshire LA6 3EP, UK

Country Name: England

Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

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]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, now in the S aisle [cf. FontNotes]

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.154156, -2.467896

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 9′ 14.96″ N, 2° 28′ 4.43″ W

UTM: 30U 534750 6000804

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

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

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Calverley, William Slater, Notes on the early sculptured crosses, shrines and monuments in the present diocese of Carlisle, Kendal: T. Wilson, 1899

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007

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

Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941

Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928

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