Horton in Ribblesdale / Hortune

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design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 July 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: very broad, all around the upper rim

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south porch - interor - portal

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 July 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - churchyard, cemetery - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 July 2000 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: the large damage is obvious

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 July 2000 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 01997HOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Oswald

Church Patron Saints: St. Oswald of Nothumbria

Church Location: B6479, Horton in Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire BD24 0HF

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located on the B6479, on the E side of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, about 10 km N of Settle

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bradford [formerly in the Diocese of Leeds]

Historical Region: Hundred of Craven [in Domesday] -- formerly in West Yorkshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Horton [in Ribblesdale] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SD8172/horton-in-ribblesdale/] [accessed 24 November 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font was noted in Glynne's 6 May 1862 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font, Norman, has a round bowl diminishing downwards on a square base, and sculptured with longitudinal bands of chevron." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period ornamented with chevron moulding. Noted in Morris (1932): "The font is a huge, circular bowl, incised with a kind of chevron pattern, and no doubt contemporary with the foundation of the building." Noted in Mees (1941): "Norman [...] is the fine font carved with crude herringbone". In Pevsner (1986 c1967) as Norman. On-site notes: the font now consists of two parts, although it is not clear that they belong together, probably not; the round basin has very irregular proportions and is ornamented with a crudely executed chevron pattern, with a rope motif torus below the upper rim; the lower part of the basin is badly broken and inexpertly repaired. The base is a plain truncated inverted pyramid which might well be an inverted re-used basin itself. Though both elements appear to be limestone, they are of different grain and colour.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.144377, -2.29174

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 8′ 39.76″ N, 2° 17′ 30.26″ W

UTM: 30U 546265 5999817

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 10 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 50-52 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm

Basin Depth: 28 cm

Height of Basin Side: 50 cm

Basin Total Height: 50 cm

Height of Base: 45 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 108 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

REFERENCES

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