Settrington

Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2010
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Results: 6 records
B01: design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 4
view of basin - interior
view of church exterior - northwest view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of font
INFORMATION
FontID: 01922SET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Horse Course Ln, Settrington, Malton YO17 8NP, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire [form. East Riding of Yorkshire], Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located 5 km ESE of Norton
Historical Region: formerly in the East Riding of Yorkshire -- Hundred of Scard [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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Noted in Glynne's 23 April 1842 visit to this church, (in Butler, 2007): "The font is square with the angles cut off upon a shaft standing on a square base, and apparently Early English in its character." Described in Bulmer's Directory... of East Yorkshire (1892): "There is a curious old font, square in shape, with a dwarf column at each angle". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE8393370271] informs: "Church. Late C12-early C13 with early C13 arcade; late C14 tower; south aisle rebuilt 1823; re-roofed and restored, chancel largely rebuilt 1867-1868 [...] Late C13 square font with inset corner colonnettes."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.12359, -0.72387
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 7′ 24.92″ N, 0° 43′ 25.93″ W
UTM: 30U 648745 5999667
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead-lined [new lining]
REFERENCES
Bulmer, T., History and Directory of East Yorkshire, 1892
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007