Alne / Alen

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animal - mammal - lion - head

Scene Description: between the scrolls of the vine around the basin

Image Source: Image by P. Ottaway in www.mondes-normands.caen.fr

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design element - motifs - interlace

Scene Description: notice also the staples of the old cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2010 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: may have been a rope moulding originally

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 June 2010 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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design element - motifs - vine - foliated scroll

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: notice the damage to the underbowl, and what appears to be a crude additional side drain; if it is so, it would indicate that the font has been used as a [farm?] trough in the past; also traces of reddish paint

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 June 2010 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2010 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2005 by Alison Stamp [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/40760]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end, beneath the tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2010 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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INFORMATION

FontID: 01954ALN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Wynd, Alne, York YO61 1RX, UK -- Tel.: +44 1347 838346

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A19, 2 km NW of Tollerton, 18-20 km NNW of York

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Bulford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman

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 is an entry for this Alne in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE4965/alne/] [accessed 6 December 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Bulmer's Directory of 1890 has: "The font is supposed to be Saxon work". Described in Cox & Harvey (1907): "The font at Alne has knotwork round the edge. It is usually termed Saxon, in which opinion we should have concurred had not the judgment of Mr. Romilly Allen, the great expert in such matters, pronounced it to be of post-Conquest date". The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes: "The late 11th or early 12th-century church consisted of an aisleless chancel and nave, and of these the chancel arch and perhaps the chancel door remain; the rest of the structure was completely rebuilt about 1150 [...] the church has been restored in modern times [...] The ancient fittings of the church include a communion table with good turned legs dated 1628, a small octagonal pulpit dated 1626 on a modern base, and a 12th-century font". Noted in Morris (1931): "Magnificent circular Norm[an] font --one of the most important in the Riding-- with knot-work pattern (an odd survival of pre-Conquest motive) on upper edge." Pevsner (1985) writes: "Font. Norman, cup-shape, with a broad band of beautifully composed foliage scrolls." Neither of the previous sources mentions the presence of at least one typically-Norman lion head between the scrolls [NB: the Visit England web site [www.visitengland.com], however, notes the ancient font at Alne St Mary's "the carvings on which include a Green Man". The basin is raised on a plain cylindrical stem with a lower moulding or lower base, also round. The flat cover is wooden, with metal decoration and handle, modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.08165, -1.2445

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 4′ 53.94″ N, 1° 14′ 40.2″ W

UTM: 30U 614841 5994031

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-12-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

Morris, Joseph Ernest, The North Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1931

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the North Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985 c1966