Malton No. 1 / New Malton

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view of font and cover

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view of church exterior in context - south view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 November 2011 by Neil Theasby [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2697490] [accessed 10 October 2019]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01050MAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Roman Catholic Church of St. Leonard [aka St. Leonard and St. Mary]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, N aisle, W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard [& St. Mary?]
Church Notes: 1180 church originally a chapel of ease to the Gilbertine Priory here; after the Dissolution became CofE; restored to RC in 1971
Church Address: Church Hill, Malton YO17 7EJ, UK
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B1257 [aka Ol Malton Rd], near Norton, 10-12 km S of Pickering, 30-35 km NE of York down the A64
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Middlesbrough (RC)
Font Notes:
No individual entry found for this Malton in the Domesday survey. Glynne's 11 August 1827 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font, circular and plain, of Norman work." Listed as Norman in Simpson (1828). Described in Bulmer's Directory... (1890): "The font is Norman and massive". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Home (1908) notes a Norman font in this church. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "The earliest portion of the building is the 12th century north arcade of the nave. The arcade which separates the chancel from the north chapel appears to be slightly later in date. The tower is of the 15th century, and was formerly surmounted by a stone spire, removed some time in the 19th century, and replaced by a spire of timber and slate [...] At the south-west corner of the nave is a plain tub font, probably of 12th-century date." Tyrrell-Green (1928) lists a tub-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period at Malton. Not in Pevsner (1985). The entry for this church in Historic England [Source ID: 1219477 / English Heritage Legacy ID: 389411] notes: "Parish church, now Roman Catholic church. Late C12 origins with C15 tower and C19 spire (latter rebuilt after 1984), extensive restoration and rebuilding 1907. [...] Plain tub font, probably C12, sited at the west end of the north aisle." [NB: the town is known simply as Malton, or "New Malton" to distinguish it from Old Malton, nearby, to the east]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 644072 6000736
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.1347, -0.7946
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 8' 4" N, 0° 47' 40" W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: painted wood; octagonal pill-box with four scroll ribs meeting at finial

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Bulmer, T., History, Topography, and Directory of North Yorkshire, Comprising its Ancient and Modern History; [...], Preston: T. Bulmer & Co. (T. Snape & Co. Printers), 1890, p. 753
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 230
  • Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 284
  • Home, Gordon, Yorkshire, Painted and Described, London: A. & C. Black, 1908, p. 210
  • Simpson, Francis, A series of ancient baptismal fonts: chronologically arranged, drwan by F. Simpson, Jun., engraved by R. Roberts, London: Septimus Prowett, 1828, p. xii
  • Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 18