Langton nr. Malton / Lanton

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 12 - columns with capitals and bases

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 13 August 2018 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com] [accessed 16 September 2018]

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design element - motifs - nail-head

Scene Description: framing three sides of the panesl

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 13 August 2018 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com] [accessed 16 September 2018]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: notice the old lead lining, ywo lead plugs at opposite corners of the upper rim and the V-shaped damage at the back

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2018 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com] [accessed 16 September 2018]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 February 2013 by John Slater [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3327060] [accessed 16 September 2018]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 March 2006 by Stephen Horncastle [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/132962] [accessed 16 September 2018]

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view of font and cover - northeast view

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the old font in the 19thC re-built church

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01934LAN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: The Green, Langton, Malton YO17 9QP, UK

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off Cordike Lane, E of the A64, 5 km S of Malton, in Ryedale, 6 km W of North Grimston

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Scard, wapentake of Buckrose -- formerly in the East Riding of Yorkshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the re-built church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 13th century, Early English

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this font.

Church Notes: 13thC (?) church; re-built 19thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is a multiple-place entry for Langton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE7967/langton/] [accessed 26 January 2020]; it reports two priests and two churches in it. Cox & Harvey (1907: 229) list the font here as a noteworthy example of Early-English baptismal font. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE7966467065] notes: "Church. 1822 re-using some medieval fabric. [...] C13 rectangular font with blind trefoil panelling and some nailhead." The quadrangular basin is decorated with a blind arcade of three round arches on each side; the arches have simple capitals and bases, and there are three lines of nail-head apptern draming the panels; the underbowl is square-to-round leading to a a short cylindical stem with a roll noulding atop; the lower base is round-to-square and has also a roll moulding atop. The font cover is simple, round and plain, modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.09367, -0.78267

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 5′ 37.21″ N, 0° 46′ 57.61″ W

UTM: 30U 645007 5996217

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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