Danby / Danby Forest / Danebi / Danebia / Daneby in Blakhoumor

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 March 2010 by Mick Garratt [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1732626] [accessed 20 December 2019]

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view of church interior - southwest side

Scene Description: the modern font visible near the south doorway

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01968DAN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Hilda
Church Patron Saints: St. Hilda [aka Hild, Hilde]
Church Location: Off Tofts Ln, Danby, Whitby YO21 2NH, UK -- Tel.: +44 1287 660190
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located in the North York Moors, near the Information Centre, just S of the A171 Middlesborough to Whitby
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Land of Count Alan
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of the modern font at St Hilda's.
There is an entry for Danby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE1587/danby/] [accessed 20 December 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period here. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes: "Robert de Brus, 'by the counsel of Pope Calixtus II and of Thurstan Archbishop of York,' granted this church to Guisborough Priory [...] The first church on the site was probably of 12thcentury date, but it seems to have been entirely rebuilt during the first half of the 13th century"; the VCH entry reports a modern font in it, but quotes a description of an earlier font in this church in a footnote: " In 1845 the font was 'an elongated, attenuated reproduction of a double eggcup or hour-glass without the sustaining framework' (Atkinson, Moorland parish, 45)." [NB: the font now [2007] found at St Hilda's is modern -- unless the basin has been completely re-tooled, which is unlikely given its size]. The listing for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: NZ6961906309] mentions no font in it.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.44757, -0.9283
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 26′ 51.25″ N, 0° 55′ 41.88″ W
UTM: 30U 634329 6035297

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-12-20 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907