Burton Agnes / Burtone
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches
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view of font and cover
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view of basin - interior
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of font cover
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01902BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-tooled], Norman [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Martin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, S side [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Address: Shady Lane, Burton Agnes, East Riding of Yorkshire YO25 4NB
Site Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A614, 8 km WSW of Bridlington
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Burton
Additional Comments: restored font / recycled font : garden decoration and flower-bed before being restored to the church
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Burton Agnes [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TA1063/burton-agnes/] [accessed 20 July 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "a fine old Norman font, which was lately restored, after having been used for many years as a flower-bed in the vicarage garden." Bulmer's Directory of 1892 has similar information on the font. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Mann (1985) describes it as a 12th-century font "which has nineteen slender columns whose arches interlace". In Pevsner & Neave (1995): ''Norman, drum-shaped, with tall thick blank arcading; totally retooled.'' An article by Wally Simpkin in the Driffield Post-Driffield Times [http://www.driffieldtoday.co.uk/wally-simpkins-look-at-east-riding-history/Ancient-fonts.2085398.jp] [accessed 1 July 2008] notes: "At an unknown period it was discarded from the church, but eventually discovered in the adjacent rectory garden, and restored to its proper position by Archdeacon Wilberforce. The relief is very shallow and it may have been re-chiseled at some time."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 3′ 11.95″ N, 0° 19′ 3.58″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: four converging ribs forming an open dome on a flat round platform; modern
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 229
- 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, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50846] [accessed 22 January 2007]
- Mann, Faith, Early Medieval Church Sculpture: a Study of 12th Century Fragments in East Yorkshire, Beverley: Hutton Press, 1985, p. 32
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: York and the East Riding, London: Penguin, 1995, p. 365