Eryholme / Argum / Argun [Domesday] / Arram / Engholme / Ereholme / Ergum / Eryham / Eryum / Harram / Naryholm

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Hinson [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/GillingWest/PhotoFrames/EryholmeStMary] [accessed 12 November 2019]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

Font ID: 01970ERY

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin

Church Address: Eryholme Ln, Eryholme, Darlington DL2 2PE, UK -- Tel.: +44 1325 377918

Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A167, 7 km SE of Darlington

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds

Historical Region: Hundered of Land of Count Alan

Font Notes: Click to view

There is a multiple-place entry for Eryholme [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/NZ3209/eryholme/] [accessed 12 November 2019]; it reports two churches in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period. The entry for the parish of Gilling in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "The church of ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, Eryholme [...] The north arcade dates from c. 1200, and though the chancel and nave probably stand on the foundations of the church which existed at that time and were older than the arcade, they have been entirely rebuilt in the 14th century or later, and the tower is a 16th-century addition"; the VCH entry mentions no font in this church. Morris (1931) notes: "The rude circular font is perhaps Norm[an]". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: NZ3206509008] notes: "Church. c1200, C13, C14, C16, restored c1890. [...] Late C12 - early C13 font, with plain circular basin on short circular stem."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 596756 6037483

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.47576, -1.5068

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 28′ 32.74″ N, 1° 30′ 24.48″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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. 40, 155