Willerby nr. Scarborough No. 1
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Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2011)
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
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Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2011 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshirecdbooks.com]
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view of font
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view of font and cover
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: the damage to three of the sides of the octagonal basin is evident in this image
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: notice the damage to the upper rim
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, south side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2011 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshirecdbooks.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01952WIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, by the S entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 11 km SW of Scarborough, by the county border with East Yorkshire [NB: not to be confused with another Willerby near Hull]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Wapentake of Pickering -- formerly [or said to have been] in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Additional Comments: damaged font: three of the sides at the upper rim are badly damaged
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Not mentioned in Pevsner & Neave (1995). The font consists of a plain octagnal basin with damage to three of its sides, especially at the upper rim, raised on a plain octagonal pedestal base and a moulded lower base, also octagonal. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with a Latin cross finial; modern. [cf. Index entry for Willerby... No. 2 for the base of the earlier font here]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshirecdbooks.com, for his photographs of church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 665925 6008513
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.19776, -0.45638
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 11′ 51.94″ N, 0° 27′ 22.97″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 229