Goodmanham No. 1 / Godmanham / Godmundingaham / Godmundin Gaham / Godmondingaham / Gudmundham

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01221GOO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Hallows / All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Wateringdyke Lane, Goodmanham, East Riding of Yorkshire YO43 3HG

Country Name: England

Location: East Riding of Yorkshire (Humberside), Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located just NE of Market Weighton, 30 km E of York

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Weighton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, next to the Norman font

Date: ca. 1530?

Century and Period: 16th century(early), Perpendicular

Cognate Fonts: The font at Beverley St Mary's

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, and to Timothy Marlow, for their photographs of this font

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There are four entries for Goodmaham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE8843/goodmanham/] [accessed 20 July 2014], but neither mentions a church or cleric in it, except the part tenanted by the archbishop of York St. Peter, which shows as lords in 1086: two clerics and one man-at-arms. Storer (1815-18) describes and illustrates this later font, the characteristics of which he erroneously uses to argue against Stukeley's claim in his 1724 Itenerarium Curiosum [NB: Stukeley's claim was on the older font [cf. Index entry for Goodmanham No. 2], not on this one]. Moule (1837) describes the font and gives the text of the inscriotions upon it [NB: they appear quite different from those in some of the other sources]. Reported in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 as "a curious and very celebrated font". Sheahan & Whellan (1857) write: ''There are two fonts in this church, one of very ancient rude workmanship, and the other, which is of the 16th century, is very large, handsome and elaborate. The first mentioned font is a hexagonal stone, of about 1 1/2 foot in height, and a little less to the sides, with a round bowl and drain, perfectly plain except a little grooving round the top and bottom [fn: ''This old font was either given away, or purchased by some farmer in the parish, when the other font was introduced, in whose farm yard it remained for many generations, till 1805, when it was purchased by the Rev. Stillingfleet, and removed to the garden of the parsonage at Hotham, but afterwards restored to the church. Dr. Stukely, the antiquarian, averred that it was even in this font that Paulinus baptised Coifi. It is really wonderful how a man so learned should have so gravely written such a fabulous statement, in the face of the clear testimony of Bede. Stukely says, 'The Apostle Paulinus built the parish church of Goodmanham, where is the font in which he baptised the heathen priest Coifi;' Bede remarks ''Paulinus baptised in the river Swale, because as yet oratories, or fonts, could not be made, in the infancy of the church, in these parts.''' Noted in Glynne's visit of January 1863 (2007): "The church has two fonts, one a plain octagonal bowl, quite rude; the other is a fine enriched one, of Perpendicular character, restored. The bowl, octagonal, has very fine ogee canopied niches in each face, with groining; the stem also finely panelled, with lozenge and wave line ornament and shields. There is also an inscription, with date, not very legible -- Ave Maria gracia plena; the founder's name seems to be recorded." This entry in Glynne is accompanied by an engraving by William Fowler dated 1806. The inscription is reported in J.T.F. (1875). Described and illustrated in Bond (1908): octagonal mounted font, highly decorated with geometric and foliage motifs through basin, stem and base: "owes a good deal in design to that of St Mary, Beverley [...]. It bears two inscriptions. The first is, 'Wyth owt baptism no sall may be saued; of your charity pray for them that this font mayd. Robt. Cleving, Parson. Robt. Appleton.' [NB: the text varies slightly depending on the source] (churchwarden). Robt. Cleving was buried in the chancel in 1565. The other inscription is, 'Ave Maria gratia plena. Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus.'" The first inscription is at the rim side, all around; the second, around the panels of the basin sides. Cox & Harvey (1907) give a slightly different text of the inscription and explain that the Robert Clevying mentioned in the inscription was rector from 1522 to 1565. The profuse ornamentation includes cusped arches, quatrefoil windows, shields with lettering, Tudor roses in quatrefoil windows, trefoil motifs, and then some! Pevsner & Neave (1995) suggest a date ca. 1530. The box-shaped octagonal cover bears an inscription in the memory of Robert Stanton Leighton (1861-1933) and is probably from ca. the latter date. In Torrens Alzu (2009). On-site notes: standing next to this font is a Norman hexagonal unmounted font, somewhat damaged at the upper rim and totally plain [cf. entry in the Index for Goodmanham No. 2].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.8769, -0.6479

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 52′ 37.93″ N, 0° 38′ 54.51″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: 1)English - 2)Latin - 3)English

Inscription Notes: Compare the text in 1)by Cox, with 1a)by Bond, and with 1b) in Bulmer's 1892 Directory -- part of the second inscription appears on the shields that adorn the basin

Inscription Location: 1)upper basin side - 2)basin sides - 3)font cover

Inscription Text: 1) "Wyth owt [doubte a]ll be saved/ Of yor charete pra for them yt yis font mayd./ Robert clevying pson./ Robert Appilton." 1a)"Wyth owt baptism no sall may be saued; of your charity pray for them that this font mayd. Robt. Cleving, Parson. Robt. Appleton" 1b) "Wythout Baptism no soll ma be saved. Of yor charite pra for them that this font mayd. Robert Clevynge parson, Robert Appylton." 2)"Ave Maria gra[tia] plena d[omi]n[u]s tecu[m] b[e]n[e]dicta tu in mu[lieribus]./ lade help. Ihs." 3)"REMEMBER ROBERT STANTON LEIGHTON 1861-1933" 4)"All may be saved, of your charity pray form them that this font mayd / Robert Cleving parson, Robert Appylton, Ave Maria gratia plena dominus tecum benedicta tu in mulieribus" 5) on the shields: "Ladye - Iesus - Christ us help"

Inscription Source: 1)Cox (1907) -- 1a)Bond (1985 c1908) -- 1b)Bulmer's (1892) -- 3)Image area -- 4)Moule (1837) -- 5)Moule (1837)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1933?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: box-shaped octagonal, with inscription [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

Bulmer, T., History and Directory of East Yorkshire, 1892

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

F., J.T., "Goodmanham Font Inscription", s-5-IV, Notes and Queries, 1875, pp. 337; r["References"]

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

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831

Moule, Thomas, The English counties delineated; or, A topographical description of England [...], London: George Virtue, 1837 [vol. 2]

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: York and the East Riding, London: Penguin, 1995

Sheahan, James Joseph, History and topography of the city of York; the East Riding of Yorkshire and a portion of the West Riding […], Beverley: printed for the publishers by John Green, Market Place, 1857

Storer, James Sargant, The Antiquarian Itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic. With other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain, accompanied with descriptions, London: Published for the proprietors by W. Clarke, 1815-1818

Stukeley, William, Itinerarium Curiosum, or, an Account of the Antiquitys and Remakable Curiositys in Nature or Art observed in travels through Great Britain, London: [Privately printed], 1724

Torrens Alzu, Miguel A., "La pila bautismal de Goodmanham y la evidencia histórica del Venerable", 8 (Junio 2009), Románico: revista de arte de Amigos del Románico, 2009, pp. 50-55; r["References"]