Kilham / Chillon / Chillun / Chillvn

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Results: 11 records

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

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

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

design element - motifs - rope

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view of basin

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

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view of basin - interior - drain

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view of basin - upper view

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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

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view of church exterior - northwest view

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church interior - looking west

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

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view of font

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

view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01912KIL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Lane, Kilham, East Riding of Yorkshire YO25 4RQ
Country Name: England
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre of nave
Century and Period: 12th century [re-cut?], Norman [altered?]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his information on, and photographs of church and font
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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.065443, -0.374194
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 3′ 55.6″ N, 0° 22′ 27.1″ W
UTM: 30U 671832 5993992

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
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
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Tisdall, M. W., God's beasts: identify and understand animals in church carvings, England: Charlesfort Press, 1998?