East Marton / Marton-in-Craven / Martun
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Green, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2011 by Tim Green [www.flickr.com/photos/93416311@N00/5861218526] [accessed 3 October 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter's, East Marton. A church with a curious mixture of styles, the tower being mostly Norman, but the rest having been much modified by the rector, the Rev John Heber in 1769."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gordon Hatton, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2013 by Gordon Hatton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3543606] [accessed 3 October 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01991MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman? / Transitional?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, under the tower
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: This church houses an Anglo-Danish cross-shaft fragment perhaps of the 10th century and decorated in the Jellinge style [Mee (1941) notes: "a fragment of a Saxon cross with an unusual pattern and an odd figure, perhaps Thor and his hammer."]
Church Address: Church Ln, East Marton, Skipton BD23 3LR, UK
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A59, just W of Broughton, 9 km W of Skipton [the church itself is located in East Marton]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds
Historical Region: Hundred of Craven
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for [East and West] Marton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/east-and-west-marton/] [accessed 3 October 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church here. Morris (1932) notes: "Hidden away in the base of the tower is a plain Trans[itional] font." Mee (1941) notes a plain font in this church which he describes as a remain of the Normans. The Marton Parish entry in Daelnet [www.daelnet.co.uk/features/churches/skptpend/marton.htm] mentions "a rough-hewn Norman font" in this church. [NB: this is one of three Martons in North Yorkshire, and is also known as Marton-in-Craven]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 556351 5978573
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.95245, -2.1413
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 57′ 8.82″ N, 2° 8′ 28.68″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
REFERENCES
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941, p. 255
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p.352