Stainburn / Stanburne
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Results: 9 records
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches
Scene Description: the pattern on the arches is eroded now but it appears to have been beaded-tape
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rich Tea, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 30 August 2014 by Rich Tea [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4211174] [accessed 17 February 2025]
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design element - motifs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rich Tea, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 30 August 2014 by Rich Tea [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4211174] [accessed 17 February 2025]
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human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rich Tea, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 30 August 2014 by Rich Tea [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4211174] [accessed 17 February 2025]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's Church, Stainburn, is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Stainburn, North Yorkshire, England. It is designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The church was built in the 12th century as a chapel of ease in the parish of Kirkby Overblow. Alterations were made to the church in the 17th century. In 1894 it was restored and additions were made by C. Hodgson Fowler. This included re-roofing the church, refitting the chancel, the addition of the vestry, and relaying of the grave slabs. St Mary's was declared redundant on 1 December 1975, and was vested in the Trust on 30 March 1977."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rude Health, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 11 January 2014 by Rude Health [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3810804] [accessed 17 February 2025]
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view of church exterior = southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's Church, Stainburn"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Anderson, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 26 November 2016 by Mark Anderson [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5206444] [accessed 17 February 2025]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of St Mary, Stainburn. Looking along the whole length of the nave and chancel in this small church."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rich Tea, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 30 August 2014 by Rich Tea [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4211164] [accessed 17 February 2025]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of St Mary, Stainburn. Looking over the altar, through the chancel arch to the nave. At the far end is one of the "Original deep-set Norman splayed windows. Splays are a typical feature of Norman architecture, the wider opening inside allowing light to flood into the room". "The pews are of two designs, at the north-western end (far right corner in the photo) are 3 with turned finials, probably around 1630. The remainder, with roll-mouldings, have been dated to the 16th century" (quotes from the church leaflet)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rich Tea, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 30 August 2014 by Rich Tea [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4211228] [accessed 17 February 2025]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Norman tub font, St Mary, Stainburn. The church leaflet says "The Norman tub font is the most significant fitting. It is carved with a continuous blank arcade of intersecting arches and small ornamental motifs including human faces. The lid is probably 17th century.""
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rich Tea, 2014
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Font, Church of St Mary"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © N Chadwick, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 31 December 2015 by N Chadwick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4947576] [accessed 17 February 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01996STA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Ln, Stainburn, Otley LS21 2LJ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1923 718870
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located about 20 km WNW of Leeds, just W of the A658, about 10 km SSW of Harrogate
Historical Region: Hundred of Burghshire [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, SW corner of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
The entry for this village in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE2448/stainburn/] [accessed 17 February 2025] mentions neither priest nor church in it. Noted in Glynne's 16 August 1868 visit to this church, (in Butler, 2007): "The font has a circular bowl of Norman character." Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as "interesting; it is early, though not Saxon, as sometimes asserted." Listed in Bond (1908) as having a polygonal basin of fifteen sides. Morris (1932) notes: "The huge Trans[itional] bowl at Stainburn has an interesting intersecting arcade." Mee (1941) notes: "the Norman font has four tiny faces in the spandrels of interlaced arcading. Its crude cover may be 17th century". In Pevsner (1986 c1967): "Font. Norman, circular, with intersected arches, small ornament, also a head, in the spandrels." The basin sides and the carving on them are very worn, giving the impression that the basin is cylindrical.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.9325,
-1.6246
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 55′ 57″ N,
1° 37′ 28.56″ W
UTM: 30U 590300 5976888
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: polygonal (15 sides) / round [cf.FootNotes]
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal (15 sides) / round [cf. FootNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century?
Material:
wood,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007
Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967