Snainton
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01055SNA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Stephen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen
Church Address: High St, Snainton, Scarborough YO13 9AL, United Kingdom
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A170, about 15 km WWS of Scarborough
Font Notes:
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Holme (1915) writes about the rebuilding of some of "the Norman stones of the south doorway", and notes: "The font of the same period having been found in a garden, was replaced in the church on a new base in 1893." The Victoria County History (North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes: "The chapel destroyed in 1835 was a small 12th-century building consisting of an aisleless nave and quire [...] The present chapel of St. Stephen [...] is a debased rectangular building erected in 1835 [...] The plain circular font probably dates from the 12th century." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a tub-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 657000 6011669
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.228911, -0.591405
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 13′ 44.08″ N, 0° 35′ 29.06″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Home, Gordon, The Evolution of an English town, being the story of the ancient town of Pickering [...], London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1915, p. 100
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 18