Seaton Ross / Seton / Settone

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 April 2015 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4459432] [accessed 21 July 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the plain old tub font on a modern replacement base

Image Source: digital photograph 9 April 2022 by Colin Hinson

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 August 2022)

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: in the tower space

Image Source: digital photograph 9 April 2022 by Colin Hinson

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 August 2022)

INFORMATION

FontID: 01921SEA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Edmund

Church Patron Saints: St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia]

Church Location: Seaton Ross, East Riding of Yorkshire, YO42 4LT

Country Name: England

Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located SE of Everingham, 10 km SSW of Pocklington, 25 km SE of York

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Cave [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the tower space

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson for his photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Seaton [Ross] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE7841/seaton-ross/] [accessed 21 July 2015], one of which mentions a priest and a church in it. Bulmer's Directory of 1892 [cited in www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ERY/Seatonross/Seatonross92.html] [accessed 6 March 2009] reports: "An old massive stone font stands at the west end, but is not now used." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The Parish web site [www.seatonross.org.uk/stedmunds.php] [accessed 6 March 2009] notes: "The original Norman font is in use today". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE7812941328] notes: "Plain C12 tub font in tower chamber."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.86205, -0.81395

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 51′ 43.38″ N, 0° 48′ 50.22″ W

UTM: 30U 643757 5970389

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907