Welwick
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: at both ends of the stem
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2009 by Colin Hinson
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view of basin - interior
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view of church exterior - southeast end
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view of church exterior - west end
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover in the centre aisle
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2009 by Colin Hinson
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view of font cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01953WEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Main St, Welwick, Hull HU12 0RY, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located on the B1445, about 30 km SE of Hull, towards the Spurn Head
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of church and font
Church Notes: 13thC original church
Font Notes:
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Noted in Glynne's 2 April 1867 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font has a plain octagonal bowl, rounded at base, on a stem." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The basin has damage at opposite sides of the upper rim, where the staples of the cover would have been; octagonal stem molded at both ends; splaying lower base. The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid with a ball finial; looks 17th-18th century.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.669328, 0.029086
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 40′ 9.58″ N, 0° 1′ 44.71″ E
UTM: 31U 303744 5950833
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined; the centre hole now blocked
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-18th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007