Hutton Cranswick / Cranzvic & Hotone / Cranzvic & Hottune

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B01: human figure - male - bearded - standing

Scene Description: facing outwards

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B02: human figure - wearing cape or cloak

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B03: human figure - male - bell-ringer

Scene Description: ringing two bells by a rope

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B04: human figure - wrestler - 2

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B05: human figure - male - archer

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B06: Christ - Agnus Dei - with cross and 3 spears (?)

Scene Description: a pattern of saw-tooth below

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B07: human figure - male - head in a strap

Scene Description: David with Goliath's head?

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B08: symbol - tree - 3 pairs of leaves - Tree of Life?

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B09: animal - mammal - lion - rampant-regardant

Scene Description: the tail of the animal helps in its identification -- facing the monster in the next arch to the right

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B10: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon or wyvern?

Scene Description: facing the lion in the previous arch

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - double arch-heads - 10 - columns with capitals

Scene Description: the capitals are very schematic

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the new font [Victorian?]

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the plastic object on top is part of the exhibit box (?) used in the display of the font at the Yorkshire Museum in 2004 -- unfortunately the of-centre drain hole is no visible in this photograph

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter's Church Hutton Cranswick [...] Although in the northern "Hutton" as opposed to the larger "Cranswick" to the south St Peter's name board at the gate says Hutton Cranswick".

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 November 2016 by Martin Dawes [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5206686] [accessed 25 March 2017]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2016 by Paul Harrop [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5042667] [accessed 25 March 2017]

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view of font

Scene Description: the font in 1924 showing clearly the multiple breakage lines before its restoration -- the font was seen still unrestored in April 2003 by C S. Drake, but was exhibited in the Yorkshire Musuem in 2004 already restored [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Hobson (1924)

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view of font

Scene Description: showing arches L-A-B -- the font as displayed in the Yorkshire museum in 2004

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view of font

Scene Description: showing arches B-C-D -- the font as displayed in the Yorkshire museum in 2004

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view of font

Scene Description: showing arches C (partial)-D-E-F (partial) -- the font as displayed in the Yorkshire museum in 2004

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view of font

Scene Description: showng arches E-F-G -- the font as displayed in the Yorkshire museum in 2004

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view of font

Scene Description: showing arches F (partial)-G-H -- the font as displayed in the Yorkshire museum in 2004

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view of font

Scene Description: showing arches H-K-L -- the font as displayed in the Yorkshire museum in 2004

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the new font [Victorian?]

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the new font [Victorian?]

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font and its cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2007 by Hazel Pickering

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the font as displated in the Hull and East Riding Museum in 2002

Image Source: digital image in Carolyn Twomey (2018)

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view of iconographic program - detail

Scene Description: showing arches G-H-K-L in Romilly Allen, 1884

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Romilly Allen (1884)

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view of iconographic program - detail

Scene Description: showing arches D-E-F in Romilly Allen, 1884

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00321HUT

Museum and Inventory Number: Yorkshire Museum (York, England)

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter [NB: the font is now in the Yorkshire Museum at York]

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Church Lane, Hutton Cranswick, East Yorkshire, YO25 9PS [coordinates given are for the church]

Country Name: England

Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Hutton Cranswick [originally two villages: Hutton to the N, and Cranswick to the S] is located on the A164, 6 km S of Driffield, about 50 km E of York - [NB: the font is now in the Yorkshire Museum at York]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: wapentake of Harthill -- Hundred of Driffield [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: [NB: the font is now in the Yorkshire Museum at York]

Date: ca. 1130-1150?

Century and Period: 12th century (mid)?, Norman

Workshop/Group/Artisan: [cf. FontNotes]

Cognate Fonts: Two wrestlers also at the font in Cowlam -- The old font from Everigham may be from this workshop [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Rita Wood, of Copmanthorpe, York, for her help in documenting this font. We are also grateful to Hazel Pickering for her photograph of the modern font here

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Hutton [Cranswick] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TA0253/hutton-cranswick/] [accessed 26 March 2017], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Moule (1837) writes: "The font, of Anglo Norman workmanship, is a circular basin ornamented with devices of dragons, an archer, &c.; but is covered with whitewash." Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "an ancient Norman font ornamented with sculpture" in this church. Sheahan & Whellan (1857) write: ''the font is a circular basin, of Norman workmanship, with curious devices of dragons, an archer &c.'' Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer (1870-1872) notes a "curious old Norman font." A letter by T.M. Fallow in the 'Notes and Queries' issue for Jan. 5, 1884, quotes a note from Kelly's Directory of 1879 on this parish: "The quaintly carved old font, supposed to be of Saxon origin, is now in the garden of the vicarage adjoining, having been replaced by a handsome new one", to which he adds, "Can this really be true If so, what next?". A swift reply to Fallow's remark appears in the next issue of the same periodical by the hand of "A. Tempest, of Coleby Hall, Licoln", whose letter to 'Notes and Queries', March 1, 1884, retorts: "At the restoration of Hutton Cranswick Church in 1875-5, it was the wish of Mr. Christian (the architect), Mr. Pudsey (the vicar), and of the chief contributors towards the restoration, that the old font should if possible be preserved. 'It was found to be composed partly of bricks, although the carving on the stone-work was sufficiently distinct to clearly establish the date of its origin. In removing the bricks and rubbish, the whole of this font tumbled so hopelessly to pieces that it was decided it was necessary to have a new one.' The vicar had the 'pieces carefully conveyed to the vicarage grounds', and some three or four years afterwards sent them to Canon Raine, to be placed in the hospital, St. Mary's Abbey, York." The same source expresses his wish to thus establish the truth and thereby exhonerate any of the persons involved from any wrongdoing. Studied, with illustrations, in Romilly Allen (1884 and 1887), who writes: "On the font at Hutton Crranswick, now in the York Museum, are a series of ten figures, within arcading [...], amongst which is the Agnus Dei; and a man armed with a bow and arrow in two compartments next to each other. The Agnus Dei has no nimbus but carries the cross, and above it are three pointed objects like spear heads. I have not met with any other example of three such objects associated with the of Agnus Dei, but on the Norman font at St James Chapel, Pyle, Glamorganshire, are some similar devices." Romilly Allen (ibid.) further points out the proximity of the Agnus Dei to some Zodiac symbols, and remarks that he has "no doubt that this was done intentionally". In Browne (1886). Cox & Harvey (1907) write of "a highly remarkable series of elaborately carved Norman fonts which occur on the Wolds, at Cottam, Cowlam, Kirkburn, and North Grimston [cf. Index entries for all of them]. To these a fifth should be added, namely, that at Hutton Cranswick, which by deplorable bad judgment was sent by the parish priest and wardens to the York Museum" [now the Yorkshire Museum at York]. Bond (1908) mentions an Agnus Dei representation on it. There are also representations of wrestlers and one archer reported on this font. In E. Maule Cole, vol. x of the 'East Riding Archaeological Society's Journal'. The sides of the basin are ornamented with an arcade of ten arches: 1)two wrestlers; 2)male figure with bow and arrow; 3)Agnus Dei, three spears; 4)maler figure with heads in a strap in his hands; 5)tree with three pairs of leaves up stem; 6)rampant lion facing...; 7)serpent; 8)bearded male facing outwards; 9)male (?) figure pulling cloak round; 10)male figure ringing two bells by rope. Mann (1985), who identifies the figure with the head as a soldier, or, perhaps, David with the head of Goliath, informs that "the font from Hutton Cranswick is now in the Yorkshire Museum at York"; she suggests a date for the font ca. 1130-1150, like those at Cowlam and Cottam. [NB: C. S. Drake [personal communication] informs us that the font is "reassembled fragments" [e-mail of 29/4/2003]. [NB: the present font at Hutton Cranswick "was presented by Mrs. B. Reynard in 1876", according to the GENUKI web site]. A report by the Richard Philp Gallery (London, UK), in its presentation of the font from Everingham, notes the local style of carving particular to a group of East Yorkshire fonts, such as the ones from Hutton Cranswick and Everingham, and suggests that they may be from the same workshop. Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2016): "The font is an imperfect cylinder with carving all round the sides and a plain rim. The font basin tapers slightly to a flat bottom with a drainage hole just off centre; this hole cannot be seen in the museum, but shows in a photo in the conservation report. The cylinder is divided into an arcade of 10 bays, and in these are human figures or animals. The carving is flat, on two levels. The lettering denoting each of these bays is that used in Allen 1887. At the time of his publication, the font was in the ‘York Museum’. It was seen by the fieldworker in store at the Yorkshire Museum, York, on behalf of the Baptisteria Sacra archive. In 2002 it was sent for restoration to Merseyside, after which it went on loan to the Hull and East Riding Museum. When recorded for CRSBI in 2004, the font was being displayed in the medieval gallery with other stonework of the Romanesque period. It was not possible to remove the cylindrical plastic case, so that some optical effects in the photos may be misleading, for example, the dark or light vertical streaks. The stone was assessed by Dr Pedley, again through the case. As far as he could judge, it was a sandstone similar to that of other fonts we had seen in the Riding, that is, of Middle Jurassic age. For much of what follows, quotations are given or facts taken from the report of the Liverpool Conservation Centre (Barnden 2002). The modern history of the font begins when its broken pieces were recovered from a rockery and it was reconstructed with cement. In the flattened image in the conservation report, two major splits along the bedding plane of the rock are apparent. These and other faults have now been ‘skimmed over with a more sympathetic material’ than the earlier blackened cement ‘in order that the fills did not detract from the imagery… under closer examination it should be clear which are the newly restored sections of the font’s surface’ (letter from conservator Lottie Barnden, 24.3.2004). It does not appear that any vital detail has been lost in the breakage and repair. During cleaning, pigment was found in three small areas, red on a white plaster ground, on bays G and K. The traces were in creases on the background. Dimensions are taken from the conservation report; depth of bowl is not given there, but it had been measured while the font was still in store at the Yorkshire Museum. The panels have the following subjects, lettered as in the diagrams by J. R. Allen, 1887, figs. 88, 122 and 124: A a bearded man; B a man pulling his cloak round him; C a bell-ringer; D wrestlers; E an archer ; F the Agnus Dei with three ?spears; G David with Goliath's head; H the Tree of Life; J a small lion; K a wyvern".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.965641, -0.439974

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 57′ 56.31″ N, 0° 26′ 23.9″ W

UTM: 30U 667930 5982734

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: [fragments]

Font Shape: cylindrical

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 8-8.5 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 52 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 68.5-69 cm*

Basin Depth: 30-31 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 50.5 cm*

Basin Total Height: 50.5 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Rita Wood; also reported in the CRSBI [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Allen, J. Romilly, "Notes on Early Christian Symbolism", N.S., VI, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1884, pp. 380-464; r["References"]

Allen, J. Romilly, Early Christian Symbolism in Great Britain and Ireland before the thirteenth century: the Rhind lectures in archaeology for 1885, London: Whiting & Co., 1887

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

Browne, G.F. (George Forrest), 8, January 1886, Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 1886, pp. 164-184; r["References"]

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

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962

Fallow, T.M., "Hutton Cranswick font, Yorkshire", s6-IX, Jan. 5, 1884, Notes and Queries, 1884, pp. 7; r["References"]

Hobson, Bernard, The East Riding of Yorkshire (with York), Cambridge: At the University Press, 1924

Home, Gordon, Yorkshire, Painted and Described, London: A. & C. Black, 1908

Kelly, Kelly's Directory of the East Riding of Yorkshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1879

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

Mann, Faith, Early Medieval Church Sculpture: a Study of 12th Century Fragments in East Yorkshire, Beverley: Hutton Press, 1985

Moule, Thomas, The English counties delineated; or, A topographical description of England [...], London: George Virtue, 1837 [vol. 2]

Sheahan, James Joseph, History and topography of the city of York; the East Riding of Yorkshire and a portion of the West Riding […], Beverley: printed for the publishers by John Green, Market Place, 1857

Tempest, A., "Hutton Cranswick font", s6-IX, March 1, 1884, Notes and Queries, 1884, pp. 174-175; r["References"]

Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872