Selby No. 1
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Selby Abbey font. A marked contrast between the plain 12th century Norman tub font and the elaborate richly carved 15th century cover, a lucky survival from the 1906 fire."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 October 2010 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2154133] [accessed 20 November 2018]
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view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Green, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 January 2015 by Tim Green [www.flickr.com/photos/93416311@N00/15815803474] [accessed 20 November 2018]
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view of church exterior - west façade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Green, 2012
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Beckwith, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 September 2012 by Michael Beckwith [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Selby_Abbey_Exterior_(8009858306).jpg] [accessed 20 November 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - arcade - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Selby Abbey: Norman construction of the nave".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Garlick, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 October 2018 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5944803] [accessed 20 November 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dylan Moore, 2005
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Looking east in Selby Abbey 12th & 13th century nave".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2010
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Selby Abbey choir. Rebuilt by John Oldrid Scott after the 1906 fire".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2010
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view of church interior - choir, chancel and east end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Selby Abbey choir. Fourteenth century choir rebuilt and restored by John Oldrid Scott after the 1906 fire".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 October 2010 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2154165] [accessed 20 November 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02014SEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Virgin Mary and St. Germain the Apostle [Abbey Church]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, under the second arch of the N side of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. Germain
Church Notes: the present church is the surviving church of Selby Abbey founded in 1069; dissolved late-1539; became parish church 1619; re-built early-20thC; restored 21stC
Church Address: The Crescent, Selby YO8 4PU, UK
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A19-B1223 crossroads, 24 km S of York, 32 km E of Leeds
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Barkston -- formerly WRYrks
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original 11thC abbey church here)
Font Notes:
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No idividual entry for Selby found in the Domesday survey. Moule (1837) writes of a plain font but with a remark on the "magnificent and very lofty cover of carved oak" in Moule (1837). Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "the font is simple, with a cover of carved wood suspended from the second arch, also on the north side of the nave." Noted in Smith (1881): "The plain circular font, probably brought from the original Parish Church, is worthy pf notice." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Described in Bond (1908) as a baptismal font of the Norman period/style with grooved cylindrical shafts. Bond (ibid.) describes the lid on this font as a fine example of Gothic font cover. Mee (1941) writes: "The Norman font is plain [cf. supra], but has a splendid cover made by crafstmen of the 15th century." The entry for this abbey in the Victoria County History (York, No. 3, 1974) notes: "The abbey of St. Mary and St. German of Selby claimed the Conqueror for its founder, but its origin was due to Benedict, a monk at Auxerre. [...] The date of the foundation charter seems to be fixed at about 1070. [...] The abbey was surrendered on 6 December 1539". Pevsner (1986 c1967) and Harman & Pevsner (2017), too, note the font cover: "Splendid tall Per[endicular] piece. Two octagonal tiers with openwork tracery and a tall crocketed spire." Jenkins (1999) mentions the early Perpendicular cover, which he equates in date and design to the chancel sedilia, the work of Henry Yevele. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE6156832375] notes: "Parish Church, formerly the church of Selby Abbey, a mitred abbey, one of the three most important Benedictine houses in the north, and (traditionally) the earliest. Founded, according to tradition in 1069. [...] restored in 1871-3 by Sir George Gilbert Scott, and again in 1889-90 by J Oldrid Scott. [...] Font: apparently C12: very plain, circular, moulded base. Font Cover: C15: wooden: very tall and elaborate: three storeys: traceried openings: crocketed gablets, pinnacles and crocketed spire." [cf. Index entry for Selby No. 2 for an ancient stoup in this church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 627284 5961271
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.784444, -1.068056
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 47′ 4″ N, 1° 4′ 5″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 15th century? / Gothic / Early Perpendicular)
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: [cf. FontNotes]
Notes: [cf. FontNotes for details]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 149, 289
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 231
- Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 485
- Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing], p. 780
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51263] [accessed 28 February 2007]
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941, p. 333
- Moule, Thomas, The English counties delineated; or, A topographical description of England [...], London: George Virtue, 1837 [vol. 2], vol. 2: 462
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967, p. 442
- Smith, William, Old Yorkshire, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1881, p. 134