Kirkby Fleetham / Chirchebi / Fleteham / Kirkby and Fleteham
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bruffy, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2004 by Bruffy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6790] [accessed 25 November 2019]
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view of church exterior in context - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirkby Fleetham church and hall. The view encompasses the two most important buildings in Kirkby Fleetham, yet both are over half a mile from the village. As can be seen here, St Mary's church is very much an estate building and is adjacent to Kirkby Hall, a late 18th century country house. The most obvious feature of the church is the solid looking Perpendicular tower, though there are other fragments within the building that date back to the 12thC."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gordon Hatton, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 Spetember 2016 by Gordon Hatton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5103384] [accessed 25 November 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01989KIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [altered font?], Medieval [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: 2 Home Farm Cottages, Kirkby Fleetham, Northallerton DL7 0SU, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1609 631122
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A1, near Fencote, 10 km WNW of Northallerton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Land of Count Alan -- formerly Richmondshire
Additional Comments: altered font? (the present font) -- disappeared font? (the one of the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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[Kirkby] Fleetham [variant spelling] appears in a multiple-place entry in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE2894/kirkby-fleetham/] [accessed 25 November 2019]; the entry reports a priest and a church in it. Sheahan & Whellan (1857) report that ''the font, an ancient circular basin, is in the nave''. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History )(York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "In 1086 there was a 'church with a priest' mentioned as at Fleetham, [...] though probably the church was in the vill of Kirkby [...] In the 14th century it was called the church of Kirkby Fleetham, not of Fleetham. [...] The church belonged to the Knights Templars till the cession of the order in 1312, when it came into the king's hands;" no font mentioned in it. There is no mention of a font in Pevsner (1966). The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE2812195722] notes: "Church. C12, C13, C15, restoration of 1871. [...] Plain round font of Norman origin, but reworked."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 593008 6024109
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.3563, -1.56881
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 21′ 22.68″ N, 1° 34′ 7.72″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 230
- Whellan & Co., T., History and topography of the city of York and the North Riding of Yorkshire, embracing a […], Beverley: printed for the publishers by John Green, Market Place, 1859, p. 367