Hedon No. 1
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2015 by Hazel Pickering
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![Baptismal font [modern] in the Roman Catholic Parish Church of Hedon](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1060807025_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Baptismal font [modern] in the Roman Catholic Parish Church of Hedon
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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - 8 arches - Gothic arches
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angel - cherub - 8
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animal - mammal - lion - head
Scene Description: at least one such, on the side of the basin
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design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose
Scene Description: to the right of the shield with Christ's monogram
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symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - initials
Scene Description: to the left of the Tudor rose
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design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: several, on the sides of the basin
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01898HED
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (late?), Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: a similar, though not identical, font in nearby Hull (Holy Trinity's)
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Augustine
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W side of the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Augustine of Hippo
Church Notes: the original church appears to have been 13thC; re-built in 14thC
Church Address: Church Gate, Hedon, East Riding of Yorkshire HU12 8BN
Site Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 10 km E of Hull on the A1033 (dir. Withernsea)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred]
Additional Comments: damaged font (the present one: part of the rim has been broken off) -- disappeared font? (the one from the Early English church here)
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Hedon in the Domesday survey. Noted in Glynne's October 1841 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font has an octagonal bowl of Perpendicular character, each face having an ogee crocketed canopy, with pinnacles between them, set upon figures of angels. The spandrils are pannelled with quatrefoiled circles, shields, animal figures, and the Tudor flower. The shaft is octagonal, and on its west side is a kneeling step". Poole (1842) tells the story of the restoration of this font "to its pristine elegance [...] by a person who went to see the nble church [...] and having perceived in the font traces of greater beauty than appeared to the common eye, asked and obtained permission to clean it", and the good deed was "seconded by the addition of a canopy, sufficiently hansome not to disgrace its destination". Poole (ibid.), however, describes his horror when he visited this church: "The bottom of the canopy is a flat surface, covering the basin of the font, and into the centre of this is inserted a little basin, which is evidently intended to prevent the necessity of using the font itself, so that its use is actually superseded, not gained, by the late addition; and when the lid of this basin was taken off, it was discovered full of nutshells!". Described and illustrated in Paley (1844): round-top basin has its side divided into eight compartments, each ornamented with a cinquefoil arch "under rich crocketed ogee canopies; the spandrels are filled with foliage and ornaments". There are winged angel busts at the bottom end of the basin side divisions. The upper part of the stem of the base, right under the underbowl, has capital-like decoration, which makes Paley suspect that it "probably had a small shaft on each face" (ibid.), and the lower part is a plain octagonal shaft. The single-step plinth is round. Listed in Brandon (1849) as a font of the Decorated period, with an octagonal stem ornamented with "panels divided by small pinnacles". Bulmer's Directory of 1892 notes: "The font is octagonal, with quatrefoil and elegant tracery." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the 14th century "of particular merit". Hobson (1924) describes it as "handsome font Perp[endicular]". Bond (1908) informs of remaining records detailing "two entries for 1372: 'Item, pro factura unius cooperture pro funte in ecclesia, ijs', and 'pro clavis pro eadem cooperture, ijd.'" These two entries of expenses make reference to a font cover that no longer exists; the present font cover is a round, flat and plain piece of undecorated wood. Noted in Betjeman (1958) as a 14th-century font comparable to the one at Holy Trinity's, Hull. In Jenkins (2000): "In the south aisle is a Gothic gem, a Decorated font covered in ogees and blind tracery, original and perfect." There is at least one animal head, resembling a lion, among the other tracery motifs, and one IHS emblem as well.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, and to Hazel Pickering for their photographs of this font.
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.7415, -0.1997
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 44′ 29.44″ N, 0° 12′ 00.23″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Notes on Measurements: [No measurements given in Paley]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: inside a shield on the basin side
Inscription Text: "IHS"
Inscription Notes: in the midst of the Ogee tracery, to the left of a large Tudor rose
Inscription Source: [cf. Image area]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 14th century?
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 406
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 231, 303 and ill. on p. 238
- Borg, Raine, Smålands medeltida dopfuntar, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002, p. 90
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 228, 229
- Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 214
- Hobson, Bernard, The East Riding of Yorkshire (with York), Cambridge: At the University Press, 1924, p. 111
- Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing], p. 762
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 12 et al.
- Poole, George Ayliffe, The Appropriate Character of Church Architecture, Leeds; London: T.W. Green; Rivington, Burns, and Houlston and Stoneman, 1842, p. 80-81