Easby No. 1 / Asebi / Easeby / Esebi / Essebi

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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design element - motifs - palmette

Scene Description: a band of them around the rim side (some are missing now)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of basin - interior

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church interior - nave - looking northwest

Scene Description: the font in the northwest corner

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church interior - painting - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "The wall paintings were created around 1250 and were covered with layers of whitewash at the Reformation and only rediscovered in the 19th century."

Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Express Ltd [www.britainexpress.com/counties/yorkshire/churches/easby-st-agatha.htm] [accessed 9 October 2019]

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view of church interior - painting - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "The wall paintings were created around 1250 and were covered with layers of whitewash at the Reformation and only rediscovered in the 19th century."

Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Express Ltd [www.britainexpress.com/counties/yorkshire/churches/easby-st-agatha.htm] [accessed 9 October 2019]

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view of church interior - painting - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "The wall paintings were created around 1250 and were covered with layers of whitewash at the Reformation and only rediscovered in the 19th century."

Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Express Ltd [www.britainexpress.com/counties/yorkshire/churches/easby-st-agatha.htm] [accessed 9 October 2019]

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view of church interior - painting - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "The wall paintings were created around 1250 and were covered with layers of whitewash at the Reformation and only rediscovered in the 19th century."

Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Express Ltd [www.britainexpress.com/counties/yorkshire/churches/easby-st-agatha.htm] [accessed 9 October 2019]

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view of church interior - painting - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "The wall paintings were created around 1250 and were covered with layers of whitewash at the Reformation and only rediscovered in the 19th century."

Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Express Ltd [www.britainexpress.com/counties/yorkshire/churches/easby-st-agatha.htm] [accessed 9 October 2019]

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view of church interior - painting - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "The wall paintings were created around 1250 and were covered with layers of whitewash at the Reformation and only rediscovered in the 19th century."

Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Express Ltd [www.britainexpress.com/counties/yorkshire/churches/easby-st-agatha.htm] [accessed 9 October 2019]

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view of church interior - painting - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "The wall paintings were created around 1250 and were covered with layers of whitewash at the Reformation and only rediscovered in the 19th century."

Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross & Britain Express Ltd [www.britainexpress.com/counties/yorkshire/churches/easby-st-agatha.htm] [accessed 9 October 2019]

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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)

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by Adrian Parry

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 6 July 2005)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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Scene Description: Source caption: 'Triple view of the Easby Cross at the V&A"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 2010 by Johnbod [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VA23Oct10_101-crop-horz.jpg] [accessed 9 October 2019]

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view of object - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Carved detail on the Easby Cross from Easby Abbey in Yorkshire. Carved in Sandstone during the early ninth century. Now on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in West London (Museum number A 88-1930)"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 October 2017 by Ethan Doyle White [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detail_on_the_Easby_Cross.JPG] [accessed 9 October 2019]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 October 2017 by Ethan Doyle White [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Floral_and_faunal_designs_on_the_Easby_Cross.JPG] [accessed 9 October 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00996EAS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Agatha

Church Patron Saints: St. Agatha [aka Agata, Agatha of Sicily, Agueda]

Church Location: Easby, Richmond DL10 7EU, UK

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located cheek-by-jowl with the ruins of Easby Abbey, just SE of Richmond, 25-30 km SE of Middlesborough

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds

Historical Region: Hundred of Land of Count Alan

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, just inside the S doorway

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Norman? / Transitional?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Adrian Parry for the (July 2005) photograph of this font, to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his [June 2009] for his photographs of church and font, and to David Ross & Britain Express Ltd for the additional photographs of the interior of the church

Church Notes: early-9thC(?) cross from Easby now in the V&A Museum, London (replica of fragment displayed in the church)

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Easby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/NZ1800/easby/] [accessed 9 October 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Gough (1792) describes the font at 'Easeby' as "circular, on a shaft of arches". Illustrated in Whitaker (1823). Noted in Lewis (1831) as a noteworthy baptismal font "of ancient date and curious workmanship". There is no mention of this font in Glynne's visit of 8 July 1866. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period ornamented with arcade work. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a goblet-shaped font probably of the second half of the 12th century or later; the basin has an band of palmettes around the rim side; blind arcade of tall narrow round arches all around the basin sides; the cylindrical stem of the base is plain except for a couple of mouldings at the bottom; the lower base is square and plain; raised on a wide round plinth. A 1913 B&W photograph of the entrance and font by Francis Frith can be found at [http://www.francisfrith.co.uk/search/england/north+yorkshire/easby/photos/easby_65508.htm] [accessed 27 March 2008]. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "The church of ST. AGATHA stands a little to the south of the abbey buildings and was in existence shortly after 1152. [...] The font, at the west end of the nave, has a round 12th-century bowl with an arcade of round-headed arches and shafts, alternately plain and ornamented with cheverons, flutes, &c. The stem is circular, and rests on a base which looks like 14th-century work." Noted in Morris (1931) and Betjeman (1958) as Norman. Pevsner (1985) wrires: "Font. Norman, tub-shaped. Arcading with decorated colonnettes and above a pretty palmette frieze." [NB: the local church has a poster that claims the font is dated ca. 1100]. [cf. Index entry for Easby No. 2 for an early holy-water stoup inside the south door of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.39806, -1.7157

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 23′ 53.02″ N, 1° 42′ 56.52″ W

UTM: 30U 583378 6028571

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-11-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

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

Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; r["References"]

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

Morris, Joseph Ernest, The North Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1931

Muir, Richard, Yorkshire Countryside: A Landscape History, 1997

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the North Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985 c1966

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