Speeton / Specton / Spetton / Spretone

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Scene Description: posted inside the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 December 2018 by Hazel Pickering

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 December 2018 by Hazel Pickering

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 December 2018 by Hazel Pickering

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 December 2018 by Hazel Pickering

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: view from inside the chancel with a view of the 12thC arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 December 2018 by Hazel Pickering

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: 12thC chancel arch -- Source caption: "The nave, St Leonard's, Speeton. Looking east along the nave of St Leonard's, one of the smallest complete parish churches in Yorkshire."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2010 by John S Turner [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1886911] [accessed 2 Fabruary 2019]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 December 2018 by Hazel Pickering

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Scene Description: The entry for this church in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/2602/] [accessed 2 February 2019] notes: "Sykes [T. Sykes, St Leonard’s Speeton (2003)] suggests it might be a consecration cross. Given the variety of decoration, it could well be a section of lintel to go with the Agnus Dei as a tympanum. If so, it should be imagined as rotated ninety degrees, so that there would have been a line of ‘diamonds’ along the bottom."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 28 December 2018 by Hazel Pickering

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Scene Description: The entry for this church in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/2602/] [accessed 2 February 2019] notes: "The two panels either side of the Lamb might perhaps be the sides of a rough arch over the animal, and a horizontal ledge below the animal’s feet suggest the lower limit of a tympanum."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 28 December 2018 by Hazel Pickering

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 December 2018)

INFORMATION

FontID: 01924SPE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church [Chapel?] of St. Leonard

Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard

Church Location: Main St, Speeton, Filey YO14 9TD, UK -- Tel.: +44 1262 851370

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off the B1229, 7-8 km SE of Filey, about the same distance from Bridlington in the opposite direction, near the coast at Filey Bay

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Hunthow -- formerly in the East Riding of Yorkshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church/chapel, at the NW end of the nave

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Hazel Pickering for her photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Speton [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA1574/speeton/] [accessed 2 February 2019] one of which reports a church in it. Prickett (1831) writes: "The font a plain stone basin". Described in Sheahan & Whellan (1857): ''The font is ancient and circular''. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. In Pevsner & Neave (1995): ''Norman. Plain, circular.'' An information sheet posted inside the church [cf. ImagesArea] claims a Saxon pedigree for this font and informs of its movement within this church. The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2019) notes: "The font is in the NW angle of the nave, almost touching the walls. It is on a plain circular plinth. Sykes [T. Sykes, St Leonard’s Speeton (2003)] says that the font was moved to the chancel in the 18th century, and to the west end about 1911. The font could hardly be much simpler. There is no carving, but tooling can be seen. There is no seating for the lining on the flat rim, and it is nibbled at the edges with wear. The basin has vertical sides and a flat bottom, rounded at the angle." The entry for this church in Historic England [Legacy System number: 327025] notes: "Church. Early C12, with restorations 1905, 1911, 1976 [...] early C12 chancel arch on quoined jambs with chamfered abaci. [...] Portions of Anglo-Danish carving incorporated in masonry at the west end of the north wall. Norman tub font."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.155032, -0.23838

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 9′ 18.11″ N, 0° 14′ 18.17″ W

UTM: 30U 680328 6004295

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Rim Thickness: 8.5 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 41.8 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 58.8 cm*

Basin Depth: 33 cm* [approx.]

Basin Total Height: 57 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2019)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, with flat cross on it; modern

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2019-02-02 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: York and the East Riding, London: Penguin, 1995

Prickett, Marmaduke [Revd.], An historical and architectural description of the Priory Church of Bridlington, in the East Riding of the County of York, London; Bridlington: Printed for T. Stevenson and sold by C.J.G. and F. Rivington; Forth and Furby, 1831

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