East Ayton

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

Scene Description: all around the cylindrical basin

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Image Source: Drawing in Blair (2005)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01956AYT
Church/Chapel: Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Main St, East Ayton, Scarborough YO13 9HL, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off the A170, near Seamer, opposite West Ayton, in the Forge Valley, S of Scarborough
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Described in Bulmer's Directory... (1890) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Morris (1931) writes: "Interesting Norm[an] font. Round the shallow bowl, which rests upon the ground, runs an arcade similar to those at Easby and Great Edstone." Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period, a "plainly arcaded tub font [...] illustrated in Churches of Scarborough and District (1846)". Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a Norman font the basin of which is decorated with an "arcade in relief, imitating closely the structural arcade of the period" [NB: Tyrrell-Green lists it only as "Ayton (Yorks.)"]. Noted in Pevsner (1985): "Font. Round, Norman, with rather bold arches." Blair (2005) suggests "probably eleventh-century" dating, and provides a drawing to scale of the font.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.25065, -0.48006
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 15′ 2.34″ N, 0° 28′ 48.22″ W
UTM: 30U 664170 6014340

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped (cylindrical - unmounted]
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm [approx.]*
Basin Total Height: 60 cm [approx.]*
Font Height (less Plinth): 60 cm [approx.]*
Notes on Measurements: * [Based on the scale drawing given in Blair (2005)]

REFERENCES

Blair, John, The Church in Anglo-Saxon society, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005
Bulmer, T., History, Topography, and Directory of North Yorkshire, Comprising its Ancient and Modern History; [...], Preston: T. Bulmer & Co. (T. Snape & Co. Printers), 1890
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
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928