Flamborough / Flaneburc / Flaneburg
Image copyright © Hazel Pickering, 2019
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 December 2018)
Results: 11 records
BBU01: design element - motifs - rope
Scene Description: all around the upper rim side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph September 2004 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 September 2004)
view of font and cover in context - southwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hazel Pickering, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 28 December 2018 by Hazel Pickering
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 December 2018)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph September 2004 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 September 2004)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 57)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - patterns - diaper
Scene Description: all around the sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hazel Pickering, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 28 December 2018 by Hazel Pickering
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 December 2018)
view of basin's top
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph September 2004 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 September 2004)
view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph September 2004 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 September 2004)
view of church interior - looking east
![Source caption: "Church of St Oswald, Flamborough. [...] The church first appears in the historical records in 1150, when it was granted to Bridlington Priory by William FitzNigel. A south aisle was added around 1200, and a north aisle some 50 years later."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190202013_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Oswald, Flamborough. [...] The church first appears in the historical records in 1150, when it was granted to Bridlington Priory by William FitzNigel. A south aisle was added around 1200, and a north aisle some 50 years later."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © N Chadwick, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 29 December 2016 by N Chadwick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5386091] [accessed 2 February 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - looking west
![Source caption: "Church of St Oswald, Flamborough. [...] The church first appears in the historical records in 1150, when it was granted to Bridlington Priory by William FitzNigel. A south aisle was added around 1200, and a north aisle some 50 years later."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190202012_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Oswald, Flamborough. [...] The church first appears in the historical records in 1150, when it was granted to Bridlington Priory by William FitzNigel. A south aisle was added around 1200, and a north aisle some 50 years later."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © N Chadwick, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 December 2016 by N Chadwick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5386090] [accessed 2 February 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph September 2004 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 September 2004)
view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hazel Pickering, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 28 December 2018 by Hazel Pickering
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 December 2018)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01049FLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1130?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Cognate Fonts: The same pattern of ornamentation appears on the fonts at Siddlington (Gloucestershire) and Thwing (Yorkshire). Also the font at Barmston.
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Oswald
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, just inside the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Oswald of Nothumbria
Church Address: 1 Church St, Flamborough, Bridlington YO15 1PE, UK
Site Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B1255, 7 km NE of Bridlington on the B1255, on the northern side of Bridlington Bay
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Hunthow
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Flamborough [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA2270/flamborough/] [accessed 2 February 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Prickett (1831) writes: "The font is ancient, and much resembles that of Barmston […] It wants, however, the ornament of circular arches at the base." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Ditto in Hobson (1924). Described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a cylindrical tub-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period; the pattern of ornamentation covering the whole sides of the font is a bold trellis, with a band of rope motif at the upper rim side. The base on which it is raised is probably modern, as is the flat wooden lid on it. Raised on a polygonal plinth with kneeling stone. Mann (1985: 48) suggests a date for this font ca. 1130 based on stylistic similarities with other Norman carving in East Yorkshire. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TA2261570155] notes: "Church. c1100 largely rebuilt 1864 by R G Smith of Hull. South porch 1893, west tower 1896. [...] C12 font with all-over lozenge ornament." The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2019) notes: "Sculpture of the Romanesque period is on the chancel arch and the font. [...] The church is first mentioned in a charter of 1094-1100, which records that it was given by Hugh, earl of Chester to Whitby Abbey, but this is thought to be spurious, as there is no further evidence that Whitby held Flambrough church. By 1130, when it was next mentioned, the church had been given by William son of Niel to Bridlington Priory (VCHER, ii, 160). [...] The cylindrical font is at the W end of the nave, against a screen to the tower arch. It is set on a modern base but, the cylinder being wider than it is high, the modern base might replace an earlier one of much the same form."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson and to Hazel Pickering for their photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 687881 5999896
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.11284, -0.1256
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 6′ 46.22″ N, 0° 7′ 32.16″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: tub-shaped, cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 8.4 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 51 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 67.8 cm*
Basin Depth: 29 cm*
Basin Total Height: 56.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 73.5 cm [56.5 + 17]
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2019)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: wooden lid, flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. 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, p. 405
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 229
- Hobson, Bernard, The East Riding of Yorkshire (with York), Cambridge: At the University Press, 1924, p. 108
- Mann, Faith, Early Medieval Church Sculpture: a Study of 12th Century Fragments in East Yorkshire, Beverley: Hutton Press, 1985, p. 32, 48
- Prickett, Marmaduke [Revd.], An historical and architectural description of the Priory Church of Bridlington, in the East Riding of the County of York, London; Bridlington: Printed for T. Stevenson and sold by C.J.G. and F. Rivington; Forth and Furby, 1831, p. 52
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 18, 84 and fig. 57