Over Silton / Little Silton / Siluetune

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design element - motifs - herringbone

view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "South door, St Mary's church. The Norman doorway of this delightful little church. Note the chevron carvings and roll moulding over the door."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 March 2008 by Gordon Hatton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/716933] [accessed 5 December 2019]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's Church, Over Silton. Dating in parts to the 12th century, this church is strangely located as the village which originally surrounded it is no longer in existence. It now serves neighbouring villages."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2005 by Colin Grice [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/21731] [accessed 5 December 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church predates the present village. The village it was built to serve is between the present location and newer village across the field to the west. The lost village remains as a series of humps and bumps."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 May 2017 by Colin Grice [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5390759] [accessed 5 December 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2013 by Bill Boaden [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3648517] [accessed 5 December 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01975OVE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Kirk Ings Ln, Over Silton, Thirsk YO7 2LA, UK -- Tel.: +44 1845 537253

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A19, 10 km E of Northallerton, 13-14 km N of Thirsk

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Allerton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for [Over] Silton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE4593/over-silton/] [accessed 5 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: "The building dates from the 12th century, to which period the nave belongs, but the only detail of this date remaining is the fine south doorway. [...] The plain small font is of the 12th century. Round the upper edge of the bowl, which has chamfered angles and is also chamfered below, are two flat fillets tooled in herring-bone fashion." Noted in Morris (1931): "Small, unusual 12th-cent. font." The Hill Side Villages North Yorkshire [www.thirsk.org.uk/silton/churches.html][404 error now] notes a "12th century or earlier font of simple beauty". Not mentioned in Pevsner (1985). The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE4560493166] notes; "Church. C12, C14, C15 and C19. [...] Font: heavy C17 font has chamfered square base and tapering banded shaft supporting chamfered square bowl."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.3319, -1.301

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 19′ 54.84″ N, 1° 18′ 3.6″ W

UTM: 30U 610476 6021781

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-12-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Morris, Joseph Ernest, The North Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1931