Burstwick / Brocstewic

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view of basin - interior

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view of basin

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: in the church interior; looking west
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view of base

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01901BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Lane, Burstwick, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU12 9ER
Site Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located N of theA1033, just E of Hedon, 12-13 km ESE of Hull
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Holderness [South hundred]
Additional Comments: damaged font repaired font
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Burstwick [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TA2227/burstwick/] [accessed 27 July 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. A font is noted in Glynne's 29 April 1872 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font has a circular bowl on a stem". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The font consists of a plain round basin slightly wider at the top and rounded at underbowl, raised on a plain cylindrical stem and a graded lower base. The basin has been repaired with at least one large stone insert, probably the area where the old cover staple was originally located. The wooden font cover is round, with a small pyramidal finial; modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this font.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 688549 5957717
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.733963, -0.141409
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 44′ 2.27″ N, 0° 8′ 29.07″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: not lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 229
  • Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 131