Reighton / Rictone
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Image Source: Bond (1908: 39)
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Image Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 54)
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: all around the upper rim
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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 - 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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design element - patterns - diaper
Scene Description: or saltire; on two areas of the ast side of the font
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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 - 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 - 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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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
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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
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view of basin - interior
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Scene Description: the west side with the diaper-work pattern
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font beneath the tower arch
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Scene Description: [cf. Lid Notes]
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Image Source: engraving in Prickett (1831)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01094REI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman? / Transitional?
Cognate Fonts: Said to be a "sister font" of the one at Marske, also in North Yorkshire
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: Once a chapel to Hunmanby
Church Address: Church Hill, Reighton, North Yorkshire, YO14 9RX
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
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 Notes:
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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."
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
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.1604, -0.2695
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, p. 43, 45, 144, 151, 155 and ill. on p. 39
- Bulmer, T., History and Directory of East Yorkshire, 1892, cited in [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ERY/Reighton/Reighton92.html] [accessed 3 August 2008]
- Cox, John Charles J., English Church Fittings Furniture and Accessories, London: B.T. Batsford, 1922, p. 88
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 229
- Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003, p. 202
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: York and the East Riding, London: Penguin, 1995, p. 653
- 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, p. 56 and pl. XII
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 18, 26, 85 and fig. 54