Folkton / Fulcheton

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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

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view of basin - interior

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2011 by Colin Hinson

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view of font cover

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

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01893FOL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist

Church Location: Village Street, Folkton, North York

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located 5 km N of Hunmanby, 9 km S of Scarborough

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Wapentake of Dickering -- formerly East Riding of York

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of nave, centre aisle

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Sheahan & Whellan (1857): "an ancient circular font". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a Norman baptismal font with a circular bowl ornamented with cable moulding. Ditto in Tyrrell-Green (1928). The font is monolithic, an almost cylibdrical basin with a slight tapering towards the base; two rope mouldings, one at the upper rim, ther around the middle, marking the two volumes of basin and base; on a round plinth. The wooden coveris round and flat, with metal decoration and a Latin cross finial; modern.[NB: the font may have been partly re-tooled]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 670555 6009188

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: cylindrical

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

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

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928