Amotherby / Amerby / Emmerby
Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2011
Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 October 2011)
Results: 8 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2011 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the modern font
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rev. Peter Bowes, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken on 20 November 2005, supplied by the Rev. Peter Bowes, www.thestreetparishes.org.uk
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rev. Peter Bowes, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken on 20 November 2005, supplied by the Rev. Peter Bowes, www.thestreetparishes.org.uk
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view of font - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rev. Peter Bowes, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken on 20 November 2005, supplied by the Rev. Peter Bowes, www.thestreetparishes.org.uk
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: the colourful ceramic insert of the modern font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2011 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2011 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of church interior - southwest corner
Scene Description: showing the modern font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken October 2011 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01962AMO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
Cognate Fonts: Another such at nearby Appleton-le-Street
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Helen
Font Location in Church: In the churchyard, W side, by the porch
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Helena
Church Address: Church Street, Amotherby, North Yorkshire, YO17 6TN
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km W of Malton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Additional Comments: abandoned font / replaced font / disused font: relegated to the churchyard -- location in the yard confirmed in November 2005
Font Notes:
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Noted in Glynne's visit on 19 November 1863 (in Butler, 2007): "The font has a circular bowl and may be early." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period, although this same source suggests that the font "may be Saxon". The entry for Appleton-le-Street in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "Much detail remains of a church of 12th-century date, but the earliest part of the present structure is the tower, which appears to have been built late in the 16th century. [...] The font is modern. In the churchyard, to the west of the porch, is a dilapidated font of the 12th century." Morris (1931) notes: "Outside porch, W: rude, circular, 12th-cent. font." Bulmer's Directory for this county (1890) informs that "the old Norman font has been relegated to the churchyard"; the present "font (Hildenley stone) is supported by a thick central shaft, surrounded by eight smaller ones of marble" and was "designed and carved by the late Rev. C. P. Peach" ca. 1870. The basin well has a central drain and there are three holes in the upper rim corresponding to the hardware of an old font-cover. The side-view of the font appears to indicated that aither the font has been broke and restored in the past, or that it is made of several blocks cemented together. The location of this font in the churchyard confirmed on 20 November 2005.
n www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Appletonlestreet/...] [NB: the new font is not included in this Index on account of its late date]. The 'A Church Near You' web site [www.achurchnearyou.com] entry for Amotherby reports the font: "now stands outside near the porch" [web site visited 16 November 2005].
n www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Appletonlestreet/...] [NB: the new font is not included in this Index on account of its late date]. The 'A Church Near You' web site [www.achurchnearyou.com] entry for Amotherby reports the font: "now stands outside near the porch" [web site visited 16 November 2005].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Rev. Peter Bowes, of www.thestreetparishes.org.uk, for the information on and photographs f the old font. We are also grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this church and modern font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 640293 6002508
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.151482, -0.851782
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 9′ 5.33″ N, 0° 51′ 6.41″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Shape: cylindrical, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bulmer, T., History, Topography, and Directory of North Yorkshire, Comprising its Ancient and Modern History; [...], Preston: T. Bulmer & Co. (T. Snape & Co. Printers), 1890, [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Appletonlestreet/Appletonlestreet90.html]
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 229, 230
- Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 66
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The North Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1931, p. 34, 48