Kirkham Priory nr. Westow / Chercam

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: view of the entranceway to the refectory of the priory ca. 1811

Image Source: digital image of a 1811 etching by John Sell Cotman (1782-1842) in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art [accession no.: M.88.91.519] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirkham_Priory,_York_LACMA_M.88.91.519.jpg] [accessed 11 May 2016]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the ruins of Kirkham Priory in 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2008 by Mike Peel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirkham_Priory_29.jpg] [accessed 11 May 2016]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: view of the entranceway to the refectory of the priory in 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2008 by Mike Peel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirkham_Priory_26.jpg] [accessed 11 May 2016]

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view of church interior

Image Source: digital image of an interior reconstruction drawing by Peter Dunn, 7 April 2015 (English Heritage Graphics Team) [www.mediastorehouse.com/kirkham-priory-j030005/print/8748011.html Image] [accessed 11 May 2016]

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view of church interior - east side - window

Scene Description: Source caption: "East Wall of Kirkham Priory Church 13th C Wall of the Priory Church, one of five windows that stood at this end originally."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2009 by Matthew Hatton [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_Wall_of_Kirkham_Priory_Church_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1226722.jpg] [accessed 11 May 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01176KIR

Church/Chapel: Kirkham Priory Church of the Holy Trinity [in ruins]

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity

Church Location: Whitwell on the Hill, Malton YO60 7JS, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A64, between Whitwell-on-the-Hill (W) and Westow (E), on E the banks of the Derwent river, SE of Malton, NE of York

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Acklam [in Domesday] -- formerly in the East Riding of Yorkshire

Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janet E. Burton for bringing the evidence of the Kirkham fonts to our attention (personal communication at the Ancient Abbeys of Brittany Colloquium, Toronto, 5-6 May 2016)

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There is an entry for this Kirkham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE7366/kirkham/] [accessed 11 May 2016]; it mentions a priest and a church in it. The Victoria County History (York, vol. 3, 1974 notes: "The Augustinian priory of Kirkham was founded about 1130" and that a church under the advocation of the Holy Trinity was part of transactions together with other priory buildings at different times in the history of this institution. [NB: we have no information on the font of the Domesday-time church or on the one from the priory church here -- were they one and the same? Janet Burton argues that when the Domesday-time church "was converted for the regular canons it retained a parochial funcion", and it was in the depositions related to a 1496-1497 litigation case involving this parish that evidence of a baptismal font inside the priory church is found; further, the depositions indicated that the font at the time was a recent replacement (20-40 years?), one donated by a local parishioner, a John Delaryne. The use of the old font, which was said to be disused in the churchyard since the replacement, was still in the memory of some of the parishioners, "an old font like a litle stepill with a lynen cloth on it like a surples".]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.082952, -0.875993

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 4′ 58.63″ N, 0° 52′ 33.58″ W

UTM: 30U 638941 5994837

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Burton, Janet E., Kirkham Priory from foundation to dissolution, York: University of York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, 1995