Aldbrough / Aldenburgh

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view of basin

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: of one of the two modern fonts

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: of one of the two modern fonts

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: of the modern stoup

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: the modern stoup

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view of church interior - nave - west end

Scene Description: the two modern fonts visible here

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Scene Description: one of the two modern fonts

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Scene Description: the second modern font

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view of stoup

Scene Description: the modern stoup

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02004ALD

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew

Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew

Church Location: Church St, Aldbrough, Hull HU11 4RN , UK -- Tel.: +44 1964 527230

Country Name: England

Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B1242, 1 km S of Little Cowden, 18 km NW of Hull, 2 km from the sea

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Middle Hundred of Holderness

Font Location in Church: [disappeared?]

Century and Period: 11th century (mid?), Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this church and its modern fonts and stoup

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There is an entry for Aldbrough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TA2438/aldbrough/] [accessed 10 June 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. There is no mention of any font in this church in Glynne's notes of his 26 July 1867 visit (Butler, 2007). The Victoria County History (York East Riding, vol. 7, 2002) informs: "According to an 11th-century inscription in Aldbrough church, it was built by Ulf, perhaps the tenant of Aldbrough in 1066 […] The church was not, however, recorded again until 1115 when, with other churches in Holderness, it was given to Aumale priory, later abbey (Seine Maritime) […] Aumale abbey appropriated the church in 1228 and a vicarage had evidently been ordained by 1252 […] In 1396 Aumale abbey sold the church to Kirkstall abbey (Yorks. W.R.), which then appropriated it." There are two baptismal fonts now at St. Batholomew's, but neither of them dates from medieval times. The one that stands at the west end of the nave, in the centre aisle is in the Decorative style, but it is clearly a later work, most likely of the 19th-century; it consists of an octagonal basin with a crenellated upper rim and with traceried panels on the sides; raised on a broad octagonal stem decorated with thin mouldings; on a modern square plinth. Next to that font is a smaller one, and octagonal overall as well; it might be somewaht earlier, perhaps 17th or 18th-century. There is also an octagonal stoup made or marble, again a late work, with a very small octagonal basin on a slender octagonal stem; the two-step plinth is also octagonal and made of plain stone. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TA2442238718] notes: "Church. C11 or earlier nave, C12 chancel, early C13 tower: considerably rebuilt in late C19. [...] C15 font, disused, to nave west end: shallow basin on octagonal pillar with high moulded base said to have been brought from the Church of Saint Hilda, Cowden Parva, now lost to the sea." [NB: the baptismal registry for this parish starts in 1571, but we have no information on the earliest font(s) of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.82786, -0.1099

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 49′ 40.3″ N, 0° 6′ 35.64″ W

UTM: 30U 690201 5968243

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-10-28 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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