Nafferton / Nadfartone
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view of font and cover
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design element - patterns - diaper
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design element - motifs
Scene Description: a variety of motifs appear in the romboid creases of the diaper work: stars, saltires, flowers
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design element - motifs - loop
Scene Description: arch-like, all around the upper basin side; the loop threads continue down and feed into the diaper pattern
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
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view of basin - lining
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view of church exterior
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2009 by JThomas [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1280591] [accessed 21 July 2014]
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view of font in context
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01918NAF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: Similar ornamentation found on the fonts at Rudston, Bainton, Barmston, Carnaby and Weaverthorpe, all in the East Riding of Yorkshire, have similar ornamentation. Also Bessingby.
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: 2 Westgate, Nafferton, East Riding of Yorkshire YO25 4LJ
Site Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A614, 3 km NE of Driffield town centre, 12 km WSW of Bridlington
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Torbar
Additional Comments: alteredd font (Norman basin now on modern base)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Nafferton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TA0558/nafferton/] [accessed 21 July 2014], but neither mentions a church or cleric in it. Sheahan & Whellan (1857) write: ''The present font is modern, and the old font, an immense cylinder, made more than 700 years ago, is preserved in the Belfry, but it narrowly escaped being broken up for the repair of the roads, in 1828.'' Noted in Glynne's 30 November 1865 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font is an early one, of circular form, sculptured all over with lozenges and scrolls, on a new circular stem." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted in Hobson (1924) as Norman. Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a diapered font with "a very rich effect being produced by the insertion of small crosses or other figures and emblems within the trellis pattern". This same source (ibid.) mentions that the fonts at Rudston, Bainton, Barmston, Carnaby and Weaverthorpe, all in the East Riding of Yorkshire, have similar ornamentation. Mentioned in Betjeman (1958) as a Norman font, comparable to the one at Bessingby, as does Muir (1997). The basin, the only original part, is perfectly cylindrical; the upper rim is decorated with a cable moulding below which runs a row of loops in the manner of round arches, but the crossing thread-ends feed into a diaper/trellis pattern that covers the whole remaining surface; in some of the romboid spaces of the diaper/trellis has been carved a variety of tiny motifs: foliage, stars, saltires, etc. It is not clear from the present mounting of this basin on a narrow cylindrical pedestal base and wide circular plinth whether the font had some sort of base originally, or it rested directly on the ground; the inner surface of the basin is lead lined. The font cover is flat and plain but for a loop handle; it is obviously modern but there are two notches at opposite ends in the upper rim surface that denote the presence of the original metal staples. [We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.genuki.ac.uk, for his photographs of this font]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.genuki.ac.uk, for his photographs of this font]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 670911 5988377
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.015337, -0.391411
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 0′ 55.21″ N, 0° 23′ 29.08″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 403, 409
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 229
- Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 301
- Hobson, Bernard, The East Riding of Yorkshire (with York), Cambridge: At the University Press, 1924, p. 168
- Mann, Faith, Early Medieval Church Sculpture: a Study of 12th Century Fragments in East Yorkshire, Beverley: Hutton Press, 1985, p. 32
- Muir, Richard, Yorkshire Countryside: A Landscape History, 1997, p. 186
- 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. 485-486 / p. 462 / [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 2 July 2008]
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 85