Burton Agnes / Burtone

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01902BUR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Shady Lane, Burton Agnes, East Riding of Yorkshire YO25 4NB
Country Name: England
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located on the A614, 8 km WSW of Bridlington
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Burton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, S side [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century [re-tooled], Norman [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of church and font
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."

COORDINATES

Church 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 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
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
Mann, Faith, Early Medieval Church Sculpture: a Study of 12th Century Fragments in East Yorkshire, Beverley: Hutton Press, 1985
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: York and the East Riding, London: Penguin, 1995