Wharram Percy / Warran

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - beaded-tape motif

Image Source: detail of a digital greyscale image from a colour slide taken in 1956 by Mary F. Williamson

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design element - motifs - beaded-tape

Image Source: detail of a digital greyscale image from a colour slide taken in 1956 by Mary F. Williamson

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ruin of St Martin's parish church, Wharram Percy, North Yorkshire, seen from the southeast".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2009 by Adam Edmond [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warham_Percy,_North_Yorkshire.jpg] [accessed 15 September 2018]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 June 2007 by Dennis Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/659799] [accessed 15 September 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Inside the ruins of St.Martin's church looking NE in the roofless nave, with the plan of the 10th & 11th century church marked by slabs."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 August 2017 by Ricahrd Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5524499] [accessed 15 September 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the interior of St Martin's, now in ruins

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2011 by Paul Lakin [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wharram_Percy_-_panoramio_(2).jpg] [accessed 15 September 2018]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital greyscale image from a colour slide taken in 1956 by Mary F. Williamson

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01939WHA

Church/Chapel: [moved in the late 1950s to the Parish Church of St. Michael & All Angels, Hull] [orig. from the abandoned parish church]

Church Location: [NB: coordinates and address are for the the church at Wharram Percy] Centenary Way, Wharram-le-Street, Malton, North Yorkshire, YO17 9TD, UK

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Wharram Percy had disappeared as a village by the 1950s, but the general location is in the N of the East Riding, off the B1248, about 2 km S of Wharram-le-Street -- Hull St Michae'sl is located on Orchard Park Rd, Hull

Historical Region: formerly in the East Riding of Yorkshire -- Hundred of Acklam -- Wapentake of Buckrose

Font Location in Church: [orig. in the West end, South side of the Wharram Percy church -- now [1950s] in Hull St Michael's]

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mary F. Williamson for her 1956 photograph of this font, while still at Wharram Percy. We are also grateful to Mrs. Ann Clark, Finds Co-ordinator for the Wharram Post-excavation Project, for confirming to BSI the move of this font to the Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Hull, in the late 1950s [cf. BSI print file].

Church Notes: Hutton (1957) reports this church as in use "until a few years ago, but is rapidly lapsing into ruin." Edwin Smith's photograph of 1951 (ibid. pl. 183) in the same source actually captures the rundown state of the church showing great patches where the plaster of the ceiling has fallen off, rubbish on the floor and even a dead bird, its legs up in the air, next to the font. [this photograph can also be seen at http://loki.stockton.edu/~ken/wharran/chrchdig.htm ]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Wharram [Percy] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE8564/wharram-percy/] [accessed 15 September 2018], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Early English period here. Described and illustrated in Hutton (1957) as a Transitional font in the abandoned church of Wharram Percy. It is tub-shaped and unmounted, though it stands on a two-step circular plinth; the basin sides are ornamented with a few very large blind round arches and the upper rim appars to have a roll moulding. There is a flat wooden lid with metal reinforcements. Mann (1985) informs that "the font from the old church at Wharram Percy found its way to Hull and St Michael's church, Orchard Park Road, built in the late 1950s. The font was moved there because the church at Wharram was decaying rapidly". The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2018) notes: "The 12thc font is now at St Michael’s, North Hull (see Site report for Hull, St Michael and All Angels). The base of the font can be seen against the base of Pier 2 of the S arcade, adjacent to the S doorway. [...] Font now at St Michael’s, North Hull: Morris (1919, 328) remarks that ‘The cup-shaped font is perhaps Trans. and exhibits nail-head ornament and a somewhat sprawling arcade.’ The early 12thc church would surely have had a font, and so it is possible, considering the two major 12thc phases in the building itself, that the font also had two periods of working: initially, the cutting of the arcading, and later the nailhead decoration."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.0702, -0.69036

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 4′ 12.72″ N, 0° 41′ 25.3″ W

UTM: 30U 651128 5993799

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood (and metal),

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. Font notes]

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. Accessed: 2018-09-15 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

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

Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976

Mann, Faith, Early Medieval Church Sculpture: a Study of 12th Century Fragments in East Yorkshire, Beverley: Hutton Press, 1985