Tunstall nr. York / Tunestal / Tunestale

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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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view of church exterior - northeast view

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

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

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01937TUN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Main Street, Roos, Tunstall, East Riding of Yorkshire HU12 0JD

Country Name: England

Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

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]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century [base only -- 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.7679, -0.020798

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 46′ 4.44″ N, 0° 1′ 14.87″ W

UTM: 30U 696343 5961818

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 Notes: lead lining

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-09-18 00:00:00. 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

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