Allerston No. 1
INFORMATION
FontID: 01985ALL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John
Church Patron Saints: St. John
Church Location: Allerston, Pickering YO18 7PP, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located on the A170, about 18 km W of Scarborough
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Early English
Font Notes:
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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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.234278, -0.654083
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 14′ 3.4″ N, 0° 39′ 14.7″ W
UTM: 30U 652896 6012128
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
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928