Stydd nr. Yeaveley

INFORMATION

Font ID: 01563STI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: [chapel of the former preceptory of St. Mary and St. John the Baptist]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Stydd Ln, Ribchester, Preston PR3 3XS, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1254 878352
Site Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Ashbourne
Additional Comments: disused / unused font / abandoned font / recycled font: now used as flower pot
Font Notes:
Bagshaw (1846) reports a former preceptory of the Knights Hospitallers "dedicated to St. Mary and St. John the Baptist […] The chapel has long been a ruin. A small portion of the wall and font still remain." A letter to The Gentleman's Magazine (1865) reports "a visit to Stydd, near Ashbourne, where are the remains of a chapel [...] in the style of the thirteenth century [...] Near these ruins and of the same date is a curious font, now used as a flower stand". The author further notes that this building is supposed to have belonged to the hospital of Yeaveley, where there was formerly a hermitage -later preceptory?- given in the reign of Richard II [1377+] to the Knights Hospitallers.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 531119 5963476
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.8189, -2.5273
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 49′ 8.04″ N, 2° 31′ 38.28″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

REFERENCES

  • Bagshaw, Samuel, History, gazetteer and directory of Derbyshire, with the town of Burton-upon-Trent […], Sheffield: printed for the author by William Saxton […], 1846, p. 329 / [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GvoGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA373&lpg=PA373&dq=burton+agnes+church+font&source=web&ots=ZOPjky5vOe&sig=FkGl68oIAcC9Redaolb3EIGE8fY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA3,M1] [accessed 1 July 2008]
  • Peak, T. Lindsey, "Stydd", (1865), pt. II, The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer, 1865, pp. 266; p. 266