Grinton No. 1 / Grenton / Grunton

Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014

Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

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design element - motifs - herringbone

Scene Description: vertically arranged, covering the surface of the bowl

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Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 25 May 2013 by Timothy Marlow

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view of basin

Scene Description: left side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph 26 May 2004 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of basin

Scene Description: right side

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view of church exterior - east view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Andrew's Church, Grinton. The church, which is Grade 1 listed, has its origins in the 12th century, with restoration by Searle Hicks of Newcastle-upon-Tyne taking place in 1896. The church is known as the Cathedral of the Dales."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Miss Steel, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 October 2010 by Miss Steel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2194824] [accessed 8 November 2014]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "The Swale at Grinton with the church beyond. The Swale occasionally rises to within a couple of metres of the wall top by the churchyard."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gordon Hatton, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2007 by Gordon Hatton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/412402] [accessed 8 November 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © C P Smith, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 July 2009 by C P Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2211428] [accessed 8 November 2014]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph 26 May 2004 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: with modern cover on; left side view

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Image Source: digital photograph 26 May 2004 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: with new cover on; right side

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014

Image Source: photograph taken 25 May 2013 by Timothy Marlow

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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph 26 May 2004 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph 26 May 2004 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of font cover

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view of font cover

Scene Description: note the nine-side plant

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01973GRI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Swale Hall Lane, Grinton, North Yorkshire DL11 6HS
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located on the B6370, in the Arkengarthdale, about 35 km WSW of Darlington (take the A1 S to Scotch Corner; then W on the A6108 until about 2 km before -i.e., N of- Downholme, where a yellow road connects with Grinton)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Land of Count Alan [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [basin only], Medieval / composite
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of this font, and for the information on the missing nine-sided font to match the font-cover. We are also grateful to Timothy Marlow for his photographs of this font
There is an entry for Grinton in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE0498/grinton/] [accessed 8 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Whitaker (1823) writes: "The font is of lead, not, as usual, enclosed in stone, but in a strong oaken box of the same pattern with the canopy." [NB: the description in Whitaker would appear to refer to a 'wooden font', i.e., one that is made of wood but uses a metal inner basin to old the water, a type of font usually of post-Reformation date; we have not found any other record of this font or its whereabouts]. The font here is noted in Glynne's 19 January 1856 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font has a cylindrical bowl, covered with transverse line mouldings, upon a short stem. It has a wood cover of late character" [NB: Butler's (ibid.) annotation of Glynne reads: "There is an ornate crocketed font cover of mid fifteenth-century date, while a simple Jacobean lid visible on early photographs is no longer in the church. It is likely that Glynne described the Jacobean lid and did not see the medieval canopy."] Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a cylindrical bowl of vertical sides with herringbone motif; the octagonal stem, base and plinths all modern. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "The building dates from Norman times, having consisted in the early part of the 12th century of chancel and nave only, but of this early building the only remaining details are the window over the tower arch and the north jamb of the chancel arch. [...] The font has a Norman cylindrical bowl worked with diagonal lines on a modern base." Noted in Morris (1931): "Circular Norm[an] font, with tabernacled 15th-cent. cover." Described in Betjeman (1958) as "an early font carrying a 15th-century oak cover". Noted in Pevsner (1985): "Font. Norman, drum-shaped, with large-scale diagonals forming zigzags." The font has an octagonal plant and three volumes: the two lower ones have straight sides and are chiefly arches with buttresses on every other side of the octagon, while the upper volume is made of the crocketed pinnacles that form the finial. The font is usually covered with a flat plain wooden cover, with the Gothic one usually raised above. Hinson [cf. infra] noted that the font cover is nonnagonal [enneagonal, nine-sides] and that "apparently the present font in the church was dug up in the churchyard at some time, [...] and replaced the nine-sided font"; this same source reports that the present whereabouts of the nonagonal font arer unkown to the locals. [source: e-mail from C. Hinson to BSI of 4 February 2006].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.381435, -1.930221
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 22′ 53.17″ N, 1° 55′ 48.8″ W
UTM: 30U 569480 6026489

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 15th-century (mid?)
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: yes; counterweight
Notes: NB: the cover is nine-sided and is supposed to have matched a nonagonal font now disappeared

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-11-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
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
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The North Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1931
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the North Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985 c1966
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, An history of Richmondshire, in the North Riding of the County of York [...], with illustrations by J.M.W. Turner, London: [s.n.], 1823