Speeton / Specton / Spetton / Spretone
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Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 December 2018)
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hazel Pickering, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 December 2018 by Hazel Pickering
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 December 2018)
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hazel Pickering, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 December 2018 by Hazel Pickering
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 17 December 2018)
view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hazel Pickering, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 December 2018 by Hazel Pickering
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hazel Pickering, 2019
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."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John S Turner, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2010 by John S Turner [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1886911] [accessed 2 Fabruary 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of fragment
![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."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190202020_compressed.png)
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."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hazel Pickering, 2019
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)
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![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."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190202019_compressed.png)
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."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hazel Pickering, 2019
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 29 January 2019)
view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: view from inside the chancel with a view of the 12thC arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hazel Pickering, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 December 2018 by Hazel Pickering
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 29 January 2019)
information
Scene Description: posted inside the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hazel Pickering, 2019
Image Source: 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
Font ID: 01924SPE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church [Chapel?] of St. Leonard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church/chapel, at the NW end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Church Address: Main St, Speeton, Filey YO14 9TD, UK -- Tel.: +44 1262 851370
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
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 Notes:
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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."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Hazel Pickering for her photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 680328 6004295
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.155032, -0.23838
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 9′ 18.11″ N, 0° 14′ 18.17″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 229
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: York and the East Riding, London: Penguin, 1995, p. 708
- 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, p. 53
- 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. 458