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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 July 2000 by BSI

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

Scene Description: re-carved [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 July 2000 by BSI

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view of basin - interior - drain

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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design element - motifs - rope

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

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view of church interior - looking west

the font at the back -- Image courtesy & copyright © Colin Hinson, 2007 [www.genuki.org.uk]

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of basin - upper view - detail

Scene Description: notice the insert of new stone, probably where an old staple had been removed

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of basin

Scene Description: notice the new incised arcade superimposed on the pattern of the old toolwork

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01912KIL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Date Visited: 2000-07-13

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

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints

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

Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints

Church Address: Church Lane, Kilham, East Riding of Yorkshire YO25 4RQ

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

Directions to Site: Kilham is 10 km NE of Driffield, about 40 km E of York (take the A166 to Driffield, then the A614 in the direction of Bridlington for about 4 kms, then take the left road to Kilham)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Burton

Additional Comments: altered font: recycled font? / re-cut font?: [On-site inspection by BSI (July 13, 2000) revealed a totally re-cut font: the cylindrical basin has had its outer surface re-tooled and a shallow blind arcade has been incised on top. The base and plinth are new (either Tisdall saw another font or this one has been redone since).

Font Notes: Click to view

There are four entries for Kilham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TA0664/kilham/] [accessed 20 July 2014], but there is no mention of a church or cleric in it; the lord and tenant-in-chief, both in 1066 and 1086, however, is given as Ernwin the priest. There is no mention of a baptismal font in this church in The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland of 1868, although it does note "a Norman doorway, sedilia, and piscina". Noted in Bulmer's History and Directory of East Yorkshire (1892) [2006 transcription by Colin Hinson in Genuki [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ERY/Kilham/Kilham92.html [accessed 8 September 2007]: "The font is plain and modern", but it is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period, even though their book appeared fifteen years later than Bulmer's Directory. Tisdall (1998?) has an illustration of a font [is it Kilham?] side showing two roundels side by side; the one on the left has some odd-looking animal which Tisdall identifies as a mole; the roundel on the right is identified by Tisdall (ibid.) as "someone being baptised in a tub font"; the caption reads: "A Mole out of the darkness to enlightment via baptism." On-site notes (July 13, 2000): the base and plinth are modern; the basin, if it is the Norman original, has been re-tooled; the outer surface appears to have the marks of the old toolwork, but the blind arcade superimposed is definitely recent and probably made by power tools. The motif mentioned by Tisdall [cf. supra] is nowhere to be found on this font.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his information on, and photographs of church and font

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 671832 5993992

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.065443, -0.374194

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 3′ 55.6″ N, 0° 22′ 27.1″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage System: centre hole in basin

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 10 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 65 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 84 cm

Basin Depth: 34 cm

Basin Total Height: 56 cm

Height of Base: 34 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 105 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and round; modern?

REFERENCES

Bulmer, T., History and Directory of East Yorkshire, 1892, [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ERY/Kilham/Kilham92.html] [accessed 8 September 2007]
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 229
Tisdall, M. W., God's beasts: identify and understand animals in church carvings, England: Charlesfort Press, 1998?, p. 168 and ill. 334