Driffield / Great Driffield / Drifelt
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the colonnettes of the base
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view of basin
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view of basin - interior
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view of church exterior - east view
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover in context
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01932DRI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Middle Street North, Great Driffield, East Yorkshire, YO25 6TS
Country Name: England
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located, 20 km from Bridlington, 48 km E of York on the A166
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Driffield
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end
Date: ca. 1170-1180?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the information on, and photographs of church and font.
There is an entry for this Driffield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TA0257/great-driffield/] [accessed 27 July 2014], but there is no mention of either church or cleric in it. Sheahan & Whellan (1857) write: ''The present font is modern, the ancient one being placed in the belfry.'' Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy example of Early-English baptismal font. Noted in Hobson (1924) with an Early English font. In Tyrrell-Green (1928) as an early baptismal font with a circular basin raised over a central support and four outer colonnettes. In Pevsner & Neave (1995): ''Font. Circular, on support with waterleaf capitals, i.e., c.1180.'' Local sources [cited by Colin Hinson -visit of August 2007 reported to BSI] suggest date of font ca. 1170s [cf. Pevsner & Neave supra], in which case the basin alone would date from then, the base a later addition? Flat wooden cover; appears modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
54.007036,
-0.443614
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
54° 0′ 25.33″ N,
0° 26′ 37.01″ W
UTM: 30U 667525 5987329
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Hobson, Bernard, The East Riding of Yorkshire (with York), Cambridge: At the University Press, 1924
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: York and the East Riding, London: Penguin, 1995
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
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928
