South Cowton / Cudtun
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2011 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2420638] [accessed 11 November 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source cation: "St Mary's South Cowton. A redundant church in fields and well away from the nearest road. Did this medieval church once act as the parish church for the three Cowton villages, as it stands in none of them? The church is closest to South Cowton, a deserted medieval village site."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gordon Hatton, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 January 2009 by Gordon Hatton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1104629] [accessed 11 November 2019
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: the painting above the chancel arch is said to be 15thC
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2011 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2420644] [accessed 11 November 2019]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: with a view of the west side of the chancel arch and its 15thC (?) painted archivolt -- the baptismal font is visible through the screen, at the far back
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2011 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2420670] [accessed 11 November 2019]
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view of font and cover - southeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maigheach-gheal, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2011 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2420638] [accessed 11 November 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01993COW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Scorton Rd, South Cowton, Northallerton DL7 0JG, UK
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B1263, just W of the Pepper Arden Bottoms, about 5 km ESE of Scoth Corner, 12-14 km NNW of Northallerton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ripon
Historical Region: Hundred of Land of Count Alan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 17th century, Late Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: Catterick, Richmond and South Kilvington, among others
Font Notes:
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There is a multiple-place entry for [South] Cowton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/NZ2902/south-cowton/] [accessed 11 November 2019]; it mentions two churches in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period here. The entry for the parish of Gilling in the Victoria County History (York North Riging, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "The church of ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, [...] South Cowton [...] being apparently of one build c. 1450. [...] The font has an octagonal bowl, on which are shields, and an octagonal stem and base; it is similar to many in the neighbourhood erected about 1620." Morris (1931) notes a "limestone font with octagonal basin surrounded by plain shields, one of several of the Perpendcular period [the group includes Catterick, Cowton, Richmond and South Kilvington] "that have probably been produced at the same workshop." Pevsner (1985) notes: "Font. Large, plain. octagonal, with shields. What is the date? Perp[endicular] or C17?" The entry for this church in Historic England [Legacy System number: 332075 ] notes: "Church. Substantially Cl5. [...] C15 octagonal font."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.4186, -1.5497
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 25′ 6.96″ N, 1° 32′ 58.92″ W
UTM: 30U 594107 6031066
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal pyramid with crocketed arrises; fleuron finial; it appears to have been raised with a pulley in the past
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-11-11 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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the North Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985 c1966