Thornton Dale / Alrebrune / Ellerburn / Ellerton / Elrebrune / Elreburne / Thornton le Dale / Thornton-le-Dale / Torentun / Torentune

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Another Scandinavian cross head built into the walls"

Image Source: digital photograph in Great English Churches [www.greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/ellerburn.html] [accessed 25 October 2019]

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view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Another Scandinavian cross head built into the walls"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "more fragments built into the walls."

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view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "more fragments built into the walls."

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view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "more fragments built into the walls."

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view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "more fragments built into the walls."

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view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "more fragments built into the walls."

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Scene Description: Source caption: "more fragments built into the walls."

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church dates as far back as 1050AD with some parts as old as 850AD. As you enter the church you see the font under the West window. The font, like the stone altar in the chancel, are the oldest parts of the church"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2014 by Christine Matthews [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4119798] [accessed 25 October 2019]

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "The nave and chancel date from the 11th century. Fragments of pre-Conquest stonework are incorporated into the south walls of the nave and chancel."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 March 2012 by Pauline E [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2842832] [accessed 25 October 2019]

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "This is the church’s best treasure: fragments of a cross from between AD850 and 950 in the “Jellinge” style of carving [...] This is Scandinavian, not Anglo-Saxon nor Celtic. The cross head [...] has a lovely interlaced design. The top of the shaft [...] has a bound serpent design."

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2014 by Christine Matthews [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4120026] [accessed 25 October 2019]

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view of church interior - chancel arch - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "The chancel arch capitals are extremely crude. Spirals are the predominant decoration at this church - a decorative form almost as old as mankind. [...] there are vestiges of carving that suggest that the rest has been defaced at some time."

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view of church interior - chancel arch - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "The chancel arch capitals are extremely crude. Spirals are the predominant decoration at this church - a decorative form almost as old as mankind."

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view of church interior - chancel arch - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "More spirals, this time at the foot of a pier."

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view of church interior - chancel arch - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "One of the chancel arch capitals has a cross inscribed."

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view of church interior - north doorway in context

Scene Description: the blocked north portal seen from inside the church

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01982THO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Hilda [at times known as Ellerburn St Hilda's]

Church Patron Saints: St. Hilda [aka Hild, Hilde]

Church Location: Ellerburn Rd, Thornton Dale, Pickering YO18 7LL, UK

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A170, 4-5 km E of Pickering, 25 km W of Scarborough [NB: the church, which stands in a deep wooded valley on the west bank of the Thornton Beck, is known at times as Ellerburn St Hilda's]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Dic

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three multiple-location entries for Thornton [Dale] [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE8383/thornton-dale/] [accessed 25 October 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period here. The entry for this parish [under Ellerburn] in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes: "The fabric of the church is apparently of early Norman date, but the unusual height of the nave walls may be indicative of a pre-Conquest origin. Little alteration appears to have been made to the building till the 15th century except the insertion of a 13th-century lancet in the south chancel wall and the reconstruction of the chancel arch. At the later date, however, buttresses were added where necessary, a chapel was built out south of the nave, and several windows inserted. Early in the 19th century the existing bellcote was erected and the south porch, north vestry and organ chamber are recent additions. [...] The chancel arch is of 13th-century date, but the responds are early Norman or perhaps pre-Conquest. [...] The font is a rough circular bowl, probably of the 12th century, on a modern base." Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as an early baptismal font consisting of a round basin mounted on a central support and four outer colonnettes. Noted in Morris (1931): "Font (c. 1200)" The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE8414284218] notes: "Church. C11 nave and chancel; restoration and buttresses added C15; porch and bellcote built 1904 during extensive restorations [...] C13 pointed chancel arch of two chamfered orders springs from C11 responds with attached shafts with cushion capital [...] Several fragments of pre-Conquest sculpture are incorporated in the nave and chancel south walls and the porch. [...] C11 or C12 circular font on 1904 base."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.247, -0.71

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 14′ 49.2″ N, 0° 42′ 36″ W

UTM: 30U 649206 6013424

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-10-25 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

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928