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view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "The ruins of St Mary's Abbey in the Museum Gardens [...] The standing remains date from the rebuilding of the church in gothic style between 1270 and 1279. The Bendedictine abbey was founded in 1086."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 April 2019 by Gerald England [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6130954] [accessed 27 August 2019]

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view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "The ruins of the west wall of St Mary's Abbey, a ruined Benedictine abbey that lies in what are now the Yorkshire Museum Gardens."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2010 by David Dixon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1791156] [accessed 27 August 2019]

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view of church interior

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's is a ruined Benedictine abbey in York, once the richest abbey in the North of England."

Image Source: digital of a photograph taken 10 December 1978 by Jeff Buck [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6130954] [accessed 27 August 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00274YOR

Museum and Inventory Number: York Museum

Church/Chapel: [originally from St Mary's abbey?]

Church Location: address and coordinates are for the ruins of the old abbey: York YO30 7WH, UK

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: The site of the ruins, now part of the York Museum Gardens, is located on the N banks of the Ouse river, W of the A1036, S of the A19, to the N of the medieval city centre

Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of York]

Historical Region: Hundred of York

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

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An image in the Index of Christian Art shows a partial view of one of the figures which adorn this font; the figure (male?) appears full front inside a round arch which appears to form part of an arcade that surrounds the font sides. The whole is very crudely carved. [NB: Cox & Harvey (1907: 238) mention a large stoup, in the York Museum, "which came from St Mary's abbey of that city" -- We have not been able to corroborate whether or not these two refer to the same object -- to be completed]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.961389, -1.088056

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 57′ 41″ N, 1° 5′ 17″ W

UTM: 30U 625436 5980918

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: Unknown

Basin Exterior Shape: Unknown

REFERENCES

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

Index of Medieval Art, The Index of Medieval Art, Index of Christian Art, Princeton, [s.d.]. URL: https://theindex.princeton.edu/.