Mytton? / Myton upon Swale? / Miton / Mitona / Mitton / Mitune
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2010 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshirecdbooks.com]
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2010 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshirecdbooks.com]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trish Steel, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 October 2010 by Trish Steel [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2141922]
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view of church interior - southwest side
Scene Description: shwing the location of the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2010 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshirecdbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01999MYT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Hall Ln, Myton upon Swale, York YO61 2QY, UK
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located W of the A1(M), 5 km E of Boroughbridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Bulford
Additional Comments: disappeared font? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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There are three entries [one is multiple-place] for Myton [on Swale] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE4366/myton-on-swale/] [accessed 12 December 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) [who use the form 'Mytton'] describe the font here as "the only noteworthy font, with which we are acquainted, of 14th-cent. date" in the West Riding of Yorkshire [NB: we have located only one Myton in North Yorkshire]. This may be the same 'Mytton' that Tyrrell-Green (1928) lists with one in a very large group of baptismal fonts that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. The Victoria County History (North Riding of Yorkshire, vol. 2, 1923) does not mention a font but dates the building to the early-13th century [but the foundations may be Norman]. The church was re-built in the 17th century, and drastically renovated between 1886 and 1888 The present font is octagonal, bain and base almost of the same height and width, the base slightly narrower; decorated with square flowers at the upper rim, mouldings below, and quatrefoils with floral and symbols on the sides; the sides of the base have trefoiled panels. This font is modern. The wooden cover is plain, round and flat. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE4392366644] notes: "Church. C13 with C15 alterations and C19 restoration and additions"; it mentions no font in it. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font noted in Cox & Harvey and in Tyrrell-Green]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshirecdbooks.com, for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 609204 5995241
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.09375, -1.3302
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 5′ 37.5″ N, 1° 19′ 48.72″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 231
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 31