Hull No. 1 / Kings-town upon Hull / Kingston-upon-Hull / Kingston upon Hull / Wyke on Hull

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Results: 17 records

animal - mammal - boar or pig - fruit in its mouth

Scene Description: inscribed in a quatrefoil

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design element - architectural - arch - trefoiled

Scene Description: four of them on one of the sides of the basin

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design element - architectural - arch-head - cusped

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design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled

Scene Description: each containing a different motif

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette

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human figure - male - with club?

Scene Description: one of a number of motifs inscribed in quatrefoils; the figure appears to hold a club or stick (?)

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information

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2010 by Mary Harris for BSI

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jules & Jenny, 2016

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view of church exterior - west end

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view of church interior - bench-end

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: church interior: the font at the west end

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view of font

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Simpson (1828: 63)

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view of font

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view of font

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view of font in context

Scene Description: view of church interior from the west end of the nave with the font in the forefront

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01077HUL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy and Individual Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: 11 King Street, S Church Side, Hull HU1 2JJ, UK
Country Name: England
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located in the city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Font Location in Church: Inside the church; Simpson reported its location ca. 1828 "in the middle of the west end of the nave"
Date: ca. 1390?
Century and Period: 14th century (late?), Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Cognate Fonts: a similar, though not identical, font at nearby Hedon (E.R. Yorks.)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, and to Mary Harris, for their photographs of this church and font
No individual entry found for Hull in the Domesday survey. A font here is noted in Glynne's 12 April 1825 visit to this church: "The font stands in the portion west of the organ, and is a very noble specimen, being a polygon standing on a circular pillar, and supported by eight small shafts. It is richly ornamented with crocketed canopies. &c." Simpson (1828) writes: "This is a Font of great beauty, and is [...] the latest specimen we have seen of a Font placed on five legs; the design is altogether unusual for the period when the Font was executed. The small clustered columns have no capitals, but there is no appearance of any mutilation having been committed. It is in good state of preservation". It is shown in Simpson's illustration raised on a wide two-step circular plinth. Like the font at Hitchin, the one at the Holy Trinity church of Hull is described in Bond (1908) as remarkable; the polygonal (sixteen-sides) basin bears intricate and rich design; some of it appears to be rosettes and human faces. The base is made of a thick cylindrical pedestal surrounded by very thin polygonal shafts; dated ca. 1390; it is made of a marble encrusted with fossil coral. Bond (ibid.) mentions the existence of another font in Hull, a cast of the Walshingham font, but he feared that it may have been "broken up by the Art Committee of the Hull Corporation". Poole (1842) writes of being told about a font in Hull [church not identified], being used "as a table on which loaves are placed for distribution to the poor", which he found inappropriate; Poole (ibid.) adds that, upon his own visit, "can myself vouch for the fact that the font itself was used as a receptacle for all sorts of rubbish". The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York East Riding, vol. 1, 1969) notes: "The earliest mention of a church in what later became Kingston upon Hull is between 1197 and 1210. A chapel in Myton, in the parish of Hessle, then figured in a dispute between the canons of Guisborough, as rector of Hessle, and the monks of Meaux, as lord of Myton. [...] The chapel, which may have been on the site of Holy Trinity, was subsequently destroyed. [...] Holy Trinity chapel itself was perhaps established in 1285, when James Hellward is said to have been concerned in its foundation.[...] Certain parochial rights were attached to it as early as 1301 when the archbishop licensed the consecration of a churchyard, and this was enlarged in 1302. [...] It remained, nevertheless, a chapel of Hessle. [...] After the suppression of the chantries the staff of Holy Trinity appears to have been reduced to three: (fn. 6) the vicar, resident usually at Hessle, a curate, or 'reader', resident at Hull, [...] and the grammar-school master. [...] In 1556 the corporation was authorized to pay the curate [...] The fitness of the chapel to be a parish church was recognized in 1548, when it was apparently being used as such. [...] The church of HOLY TRINITY is cruciform, with a central tower. (fn. 150) There are aisles to both nave and chancel. [...] The transepts are the earliest part of the building and were begun in the last decade of the 13th century, when a general scheme of rebuilding seems to have been undertaken, probably on the site of an earlier church. [...] The chancel was erected c. 1320–70 [...] Work on the nave began towards the end of the 14th century and was presumably well advanced by 1425, when a mandate for the consecration of the church was issued. [...] Further alterations to the lofts were made in 1646 [...] and 1727, [...] and in 1815 two bays at the west end were screened off to form a narthex. This was used to house the 14th-century font of fossil marble." English Heritage [Listing NGR: TA0993428555] (1952) notes: "Parish church and attached churchyard wall. Mainly 1300-1425. [...] C14 octagonal font with concave sided crocketed gables and figure carving, and buttressed minor shafts."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.741559, -0.333954
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 44′ 29.61″ N, 0° 20′ 2.23″ W
UTM: 30U 675820 5958067

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (coralloid)
Font Shape: polygonal (16 sides) (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: polygonal
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal (16 sides)
Rim Thickness: 12.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 75 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 100 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm
Notes on Measurements: Simpson (1828: 63)

LID INFORMATION

Notes: The illustration in Simpson (1828) shows one of the iron staples of the cover lock still on the upper rim; it appears to have been trimmed off now [2005]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-10-17 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 J., English Church Fittings Furniture and Accessories, London: B.T. Batsford, 1922
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007
Hobson, Bernard, The East Riding of Yorkshire (with York), Cambridge: At the University Press, 1924
Moule, Thomas, The English counties delineated; or, A topographical description of England [...], London: George Virtue, 1837 [vol. 2]
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844
Poole, George Ayliffe, The Appropriate Character of Church Architecture, Leeds; London: T.W. Green; Rivington, Burns, and Houlston and Stoneman, 1842
Simpson, Francis, A series of ancient baptismal fonts: chronologically arranged, drwan by F. Simpson, Jun., engraved by R. Roberts, London: Septimus Prowett, 1828