Reighton / Rictone

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design element - architectural - column - 4

Scene Description: each with a scalloped capital; at the corners of the basin; seen here on the right [north] side of the font

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2013 by Timothy Marlow

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design element - architectural - column - flat column - 4

Scene Description: on one of the sides of the basin, between the broader angle columns; seen here on the right [north] side of the font

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design element - motifs - circle - motif inside - varied - 8

Scene Description: the south side of the font: a variety of designs are inscribed in these eight circles: some are quatrefoil, one is floral, another has curved spikes, etc.

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 June 2013 by Timothy Marlow

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design element - motifs - floral - 8-petal - in a circle - 2

Scene Description: between the rows of dog-tooth/saltire, on the east side of the font

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: all around the upper rim

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design element - motifs - scallop

Scene Description: forming the capitals of the angle columns and, on this particular side of the basin, also of the flat pillars between the angle columns

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken June 2008 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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design element - patterns - diaper

Scene Description: on the west side of the font, covering all of the surface of the panel between the angle columns

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken June 2008 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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design element - patterns - diaper

Scene Description: or saltire; on two areas of the ast side of the font

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view of basin - interior

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008

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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font beneath the tower arch

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008

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view of font

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Image Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 54)

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view of font

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Image Source: Bond (1908: 39)

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view of font

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Image Source: engraving in Prickett (1831)

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view of font - east side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008

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view of font - north side

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view of font - south side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008

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view of font - west side

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2013 by Timothy Marlow

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2013 by Timothy Marlow

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2013 by Timothy Marlow

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context - southeast side

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view of font and cover in context - southwest side

Scene Description: the west side with the diaper-work pattern

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view of font cover

Scene Description: [cf. Lid Notes]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01094REI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Church Hill, Reighton, North Yorkshire, YO14 9RX
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A165, 4 km SE of Hunmanby, at the N end of the Flamborough Headland Heritage Coast, about 20 km SE of Scarborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Hunthow [in Domesday] -- formerly in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman? / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: Said to be a "sister font" of the one at Marske, also in North Yorkshire
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, and to Timothy Marlow, for their photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: Once a chapel to Hunmanby
There are two entries for Reighton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TA1275/reighton/] [accessed 17 February 2015], but neither mentions cleric nor church in it. A font here is noted and illustrated in Prickett (1831). Noted in Bulmer's Directory of 1892: "The font is a choice specimen of very early work. It is square, having a cylindrical pillar with base and capital at each angle, and the sides sculptured with diaper-work of different patterns. The tracery on one side, it is said, is found only in the Catacombs of Rome, and on another side the pattern is similar to some of the diaper-work behind the stalls of Canterbury Cathedral." Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a rectangular unmounted baptismal font of the Norman period; it has an engaged decorative column, with a scalloped capital, at each angle; the four sides of the bowl ornamented with "diaper work" pattern. Listed in Cox-Harvey (1907) as a Norman font. Described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928), who describes the decorative pattern here as "a diaper [...] formed by the multiplication of circular forms". In Pevsner & Neave (1995): "Excellent Norman font. Square, with demi-columns in the corners. Cable moulding. Sides decorated with saltire crosses small and large, rosettes, lozenges and a cluster of columns."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.1604, -0.2695
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 09′ 36.58″ N, 0° 16′ 09.83″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: rectangular (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Bulmer, T., History and Directory of East Yorkshire, 1892
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
Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: York and the East Riding, London: Penguin, 1995
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
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928