Thwing / Thweng / Thwenge
Results: 8 records
B01: design element - motifs - lozenge
Scene Description: all around the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
R01: design element - motifs - braid
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: the segment of new stone is visible on the right-hand side of the upper rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: note the restoration with new-stone insert
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01056THW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [restored], Norman [altered?]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Thwing, Driffield YO25 3DX, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1377 257712
Site Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just N of the B1253, 13 km WNW of Bridlington
Additional Comments: damaged font / restored font / repaired font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a tub-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period. Described in Mann (1985) as baptismal font of the 12th century decorated with lozenge pattern. Noted in Bulmer's History and Directory of East Yorkshire (1892) [2007 transcription by Colin Hinson in http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ERY/Thwing/Thwing92.html [accessed 4 September 2007]: "The font is ancient." The basin is almost cylindrical, and has a braid motif all around the upper rim, the rest of the sides covered in a pattern of large lozenges; the squat base is round and modern; the font must have been seriously damaged in the past, as there is a top-to-bottom insert of new stone, abouth a sixth of the total volume of the basin; the basin well is lead-lined and has a central drain. The wooden cover has metal decoration and ring handle, and appears Victorian. An article by Wally Simpkin in the Driffield Post-Driffield Times [http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/wally-simpkins-look-at-east-riding-history/Ancient-fonts.2085398.jp] [accessed 1 July 2008] notes:" Whether it belonged to Thwing is somewhat uncertain. Curiously enough it was found at Sewerby, and was claimed and erected in Thwing church".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 670157 5999683
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.117095, -0.396562
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 7′ 1.54″ N, 0° 23′ 47.62″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Bulmer, T., History and Directory of East Yorkshire, 1892, [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ERY/Thwing/Thwing92.html] [accessed 4 September 2007]
- Mann, Faith, Early Medieval Church Sculpture: a Study of 12th Century Fragments in East Yorkshire, Beverley: Hutton Press, 1985, p. 32
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 18, 85