East Ayton
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
Scene Description: all around the cylindrical basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Blair, 2005
Image Source: Drawing in Blair (2005)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Blair, 2005
Image Source: Drawing in Blair (2005)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01956AYT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Main St, East Ayton, Scarborough YO13 9HL, United Kingdom
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A170, near Seamer, opposite West Ayton, in the Forge Valley, S of Scarborough
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 664170 6014340
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.25065, -0.48006
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 15′ 2.34″ N, 0° 28′ 48.22″ W
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, p. 460 and fig. 52
- Bulmer, T., History, Topography, and Directory of North Yorkshire, Comprising its Ancient and Modern History; [...], Preston: T. Bulmer & Co. (T. Snape & Co. Printers), 1890, p. 1118 / [www.genuki.org.uk/gig/eng/YKS/NRY/Seamer/Seamer90.htm] [accessed 19 December 2006]
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 230
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The North Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1931, p. 58
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the North Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985 c1966, p. 67
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 76