Cayton

INFORMATION

FontID: 01966CAY
Church/Chapel: Parish Church St. John the Baptist [earlier: St. Leonard's]
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist [earlier: St. Leonard]
Church Location: Cayton, Scarborough YO11 3RQ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1723 639185
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located on the B1261, 6-7 km S of Scarborough
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, attched to a pier of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
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

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

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
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The North Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1931
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