Allerston No. 1

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01985ALL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John
Church Address: Allerston, Pickering YO18 7PP, United Kingdom
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A170, about 18 km W of Scarborough
Font Notes:
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE8782982912] informs: "Church. C14 nave, porch and chancel; early C15 tower. Chancel restored 1870; nave, porch and tower re-roofed and partly rebuilt 1881-3 [...] C15 octagonal font on cylindrical pedestal." [cf. Index entry for Allerston No. 2 for a stoup of about the same date]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 652896 6012128
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.234278, -0.654083
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 14′ 3.4″ N, 0° 39′ 14.7″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 230
  • Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 32