Cayton

INFORMATION

Font ID: 01966CAY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church St. John the Baptist [earlier: St. Leonard's]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, attched to a pier of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist [earlier: St. Leonard]
Church Address: Cayton, Scarborough YO11 3RQ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1723 639185
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B1261, 6-7 km S of Scarborough
Font Notes:
Noted in Glynne's July 1857 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font is a plain circular vessel attached to a pier." Whellan (1859) has: "The Norman font is plain." Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Morris (1931) notes "the rude circular font" and dates it to the Norman period as well.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 670722 6012810
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.23477, -0.38048
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 14′ 5.17″ N, 0° 22′ 49.73″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 230
  • Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 144
  • Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 144
  • Morris, Joseph Ernest, The North Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1931, p. 113
  • Whellan & Co., T., History and topography of the city of York and the North Riding of Yorkshire, embracing a […], Beverley: printed for the publishers by John Green, Market Place, 1859, p. 822