Hickleton nr. Doncaster / Chicheltone
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Results: 6 records
view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Hinson, 2004 [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of basin's top
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Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Hinson, 2004 [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Hinson, 2004 [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: a band of, right under the upper rim moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Hinson, 2004 [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hickleton. The church dedicated to St Wilfred, has Norman chancel arch and font and is believed to have been begun in the 12th century, although much of today’s building is 15th century."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nigel Homer, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 February 2006 by Nigel Homer [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/116865] [accessed 24 May 2016]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Colin Hinson, 2004 [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01998HIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Wilfrid or St. Dennis
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, NW corner of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Wilfrid [aka Wilfred, Wilfrith] or St. Denys [aka Dennis, Dionis, Dionysius]
Church Address: Barnsley Road, Hickleton, Doncaster DN5 7BA
Site Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A635, just E of Thurnscoe, WNW of Doncaster
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield
Historical Region: Hundred of Strafforth [in Domesday] -- formerly West Riding of Yorkshire
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Hickleton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE4805/hickleton/] [accessed 24 May 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Hunter (1828-1831) writes: "The font, which has the appearance of a truncated Saxon circular column of wide dimensions, is doubtless coeval with the oldest part of the edifice" [which he dates to "at least a century after the Conquest" [i.e., 1166+]. Noted in Glynne's 18 January 1860 visit to this church: "The font is early, the bowl circular, with Early English flowered moulding round the upper part." The National Gazetter of Gt. Britain and Ireland for 1868 informs: "The interior of the church contains an ancient font". Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a 13th-century Early English font ornamented with a band of conventional foliage. Noted in Morris (1932): "Very massive, circular font, probably Trans[itional], of the date of the chancel arch [i.e., Norman], with an interesting four-leaved ornament." Mee (1941) notes: "massive Norman font with flowers round the rim." In Betjeman (1958) as a font of the Transitional period. Pevsner (1986 c1967), however, writes: "Font. Cylindrical, with a frieze of four-petalled flowers. Not apparently a font originally." Harman & Pevsner (2017), however, have: Font. C12 or C13. Cylindrical, with a frieze of four-petalled flowers". The font is tub-shaped, a roughly cylindrical basin with a roll moulding at the upper rim, and with a row of floral motif just below it; the squat base is moulded and circular, slightly wider than the bottom of the basin. The wooden font cover is roughly bucket-shaped and modern. [We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.genuki.org, for the photographs of this font]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 614464 5933977
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.5422, -1.2726
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 32′ 31.92″ N, 1° 16′ 21.36″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped, cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
- The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868, [transcribed in [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Hickleton/Hickleton68.html]]
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 435
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 231
- Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 221
- Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 323
- Hunter, Joseph, South Yorkshire, Wakefield: EP Publishing for Sheffield City Libraries, 1974 c1828-1931, vol. 2: 138
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941, p. 185
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 268