Fridaythorpe / Fridagstorp / Fridarstorp / Fridastorp

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Results: 8 records

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: does the shape of the lining match the shape of the basin well?

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

Scene Description: part of the re-cut area of the basin [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 October 2010 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2138592] [accessed 27 July 2014]

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view of church exterior - south view

Photo caption: "St Mary's Church Fridaythorpe. One of the "Sykes" churches. The porch was completely rebuilt in 2010 you can see the mix of old and new stone." [NB: Sir Tatton Sykes (1826-1913), Sledmere, Yorkshire]

Scene Description: Photo caption: "St Mary's Church Fridaythorpe. One of the "Sykes" churches. The porch was completely rebuilt in 2010 you can see the mix of old and new stone." [NB: Sir Tatton Sykes (1826-1913), Sledmere, Yorkshire]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2010 by Martin Dawes [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2369645] [accessed 27 July 2014]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of base

Scene Description: probably from a different font originally [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01908FRI

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-cut], Norman [altered]

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary

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

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin

Church Address: Church Lane, Fridaythorpe, East Riding of Yorkshire, YO25 9RT

Site Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located on the A166, about 30 km ENE of York (same distant WSW of Bridlington)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Acklam

Additional Comments: altered font / re-cycled font / re-cut / base from another font? [cf. FontNotes] -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

There are four entries for Fridaythorpe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE8759/fridaythorpe/] [accessed 27 July 2014], the part in the lordship and tenancy of the archbishop of York St. Peter, in both 1066 and 1086, reports a priest and a church in it. A font here is noted in Sheahan & Whellan (1857) as ancient. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. In Pevsner & Neave (1857): ''Norman, round, badly treated, shallow, with blank arcading''. What this font looked like originally we can only guess: it was probably, like many such others of the Norman period in England, tub-shaped, the sides decorated with shallow round arches of which only a narrow band has survived; the basin has been 'trimmed' at the top, doing away with the upper end of the arches and any rim there may have had; the lower half (?) of the basin has been re-cut to introduce two round mouldings at the top and an awkward octagonal chamfer below them to mark the underbowl; the plain octagonal stem of the base, probably from another font originally, now 'matches' the shape of the underbowl; the circular lower base appears still later in date. The round wooden font cover appears modern. [NB: COX & Harvey (Ibid.) do not comment on the alteration; was it re-cut after 1907?]

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

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 652905 5988422

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.02139, -0.66594

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 1′ 17″ N, 0° 39′ 57.38″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: tub-shaped, re-cut

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage System: centre hole in basin

Drainage Notes: lead lining

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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: York and the East Riding, London: Penguin, 1995, p. 427
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, p. 642 / [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pnEMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA484&lpg=PA484&dq=lowthorpe+church+font&source=web&ots=voqP9Oob0V&sig=eG9y4rQzjY9QXoOVBZVVv4af2Sc&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPP5,M1] [accessed 5 July 2008]