Mytton? / Myton upon Swale? / Miton / Mitona / Mitton / Mitune

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view of basin - interior
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church interior - southwest side
INFORMATION
FontID: 01999MYT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Hall Ln, Myton upon Swale, York YO61 2QY, UK
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located W of the A1(M), 5 km E of Boroughbridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Bulford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshirecdbooks.com, for his photographs of this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
54.09375,
-1.3302
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
54° 5′ 37.5″ N,
1° 19′ 48.72″ W
UTM: 30U 609204 5995241
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-. Accessed: 2011-03-10 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-03-10 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928