Seaton Ross / Seton / Settone
Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2022
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 26 August 2022)
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Scene Description: the plain old tub font on a modern replacement base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2022
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 church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian S, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 April 2015 by Ian S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4459432] [accessed 21 July 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: in the tower space
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2022
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
Font ID: 01921SEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Edmund
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the tower space
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia]
Church Address: Seaton Ross, East Riding of Yorkshire, YO42 4LT
Site Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
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]
Additional Comments: disused font / restored font (mounted on a modern base)
Font Notes:
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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."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 643757 5970389
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.86205, -0.81395
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 51′ 43.38″ N, 0° 48′ 50.22″ W
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, p. 229