Tunstall nr. York / Tunestal / Tunestale
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Image and permission received (email of 14 November 2004)
Results: 7 records
B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: one on each face of the panel
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BBL01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 8
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LB01: design element - architectural - column - 8
Scene Description: all now missing except the stumps on the lower base
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Image Source: digital photograph taken November 2004 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 14 November 2004)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken November 2004 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 14 November 2004)
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft,
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 March 2011 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2308602] [accessed 3 May 2015]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Dawes, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 October 2011 by Martin Dawes [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2703286] [accessed 3 May 2015]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken November 2004 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01937TUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century [base only -- 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Main Street, Roos, Tunstall, East Riding of Yorkshire HU12 0JD
Site Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B1242, 5 km NW of Withernsea, 20 km E of York
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Holderness [South Hundred] [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: damaged font: the outer colonnettes of the base have disappeared / composite font? altered font? -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for this Tunstall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TA3031/tunstall/] [accessed 3 May 2015], one of which mentions both a priest and a church in it. A font here is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as noteworthy, of the Early English period. In Betjeman (1958) simply as an "interesting font". The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TA3055131990] (1966) notes: " C14 font: circular pier surrounded by the bases for 8 colonnettes, now missing. Octagonal tub with shields and quatrefoils." Noted in the Victoria County History (East Riding of Yorkshire, 2002): "a font, comprising a 15th-century bowl on a 13th- or 14th-century base". The font consists of an octagonal basin with a blank shield in a large quatrefoil widow on each face, below which is the head of a slightly pointed arch; the sides of these arches ended in eight outer colonnettes that serve, together with the broader central shaft, as the base on which rested the basin; unfortunately these colonnettes have now disappeared and only their stumps remain on the lower octagonal base of the font. Octagonal plinth. There is damage to some of the panels of the basin. The inner well of the basin has a double (?) metal insert: the inner is lead or tin, the outer, copper.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 696343 5961818
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.7679, -0.020798
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 46′ 4.44″ N, 0° 1′ 14.87″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: four - five?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 411
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 229
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 229