Tickhill No. 1
Results: 10 records
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Cowie, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 February 2005 by John Cowie [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Marys_Church_Tickhill_Feb-05.jpg] [accessed 11 October 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Neal Theasby, 2016
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: with the font at the west end, before the canopy was added
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving by S. Bellin of a drawing by H. Falconer, in Hunter (1828-1831)
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Davies, 1962
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Davies (1962: pl. 58)
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Davies, 1962
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Davies (1962: pl. 58)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02035TIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, under a modern canopy
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: According to Hutton (1957), the church tower, which resembles the Somerset type, is associated with Walter of Skirlaugh, Bishop of Bath and Wells 1386-1388, and is said to have brought the design up to Yorkshire; the tower bears on its face "the arms of England with those of Leon and Castile, apparently put there by John of Gaunt 1373-99, who styled himself King of Leon and Castile." (Ibid., p. 57)
Church Address: 23 St Mary's Gate, Tickhill, Doncaster DN11 9LY, UK
Site Location: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A60, 10 kms S of Doncaster.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Sheffield
Historical Region: formerly WRYrks
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for Tickhill in the Domesday survey. The font here is described in Gough (1792): "hexagon [cf. infra], with the initials of Mary, Jesus, a third, and a cross." Described in Hunter (1828-1831): "On entering by the south porch we are admitted into a spacious area, in the centre of which stands the font, exactly opposite the west door, and, till the erection of a modern gallery, the only object which this part of the church presented. It is of the usual capacious size, octagonal, raised on a cluster of four columns. Four of its sides present shields, bearing a plain cross, the monograms JHC, MR, and XPC. On the other sides are roses in quatrefoils." An engraving by Miss H. Falconer, dated 1828, reproduced in Hunter (1828-1831) shows the interior of the nave, Tickhill church, looking west, with the baptismal font right in the centre of the nave, opposite the west door. This illustration is also shown in Butler (2007). Noted in Glynne's visit to this church probably in 1834 (in Butler, 2007): "The font is an octagon, panelled with quatrefoils and shields, on a pedestal formed of clustered shafts, and a band of square flowers round the base." Noted in Armitage (1905) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Morris (1932): "Perp[endicular] font." An illustration in Davies (1962) shows a chalice-shaped octagonal font ornamented with shields on the basin sides and rosettes on the lower base; it now stands under a modern canopy raised on four columns, the work of George Pace according to this source. In Pevsner (1986 c1967): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal with shallow bowl, simply decorated with quatrefoils and shields." Pevsner (ibid.) notes the "C19?" font canopy by G.G. Pace. The entry of this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SK5917493086] notes: "Lower stage of tower early C13. North-east chapel evidently earlier C14. Remainder probably rebuilt not long after, and ending up with the west tower which can be dated by historic evidence 1373-99. Tower still incomplete in 1429, possibly providing a date for the crenellated parapet"; no font mentioned in it. [cf. BSI entry Tickhill No. 2 for Tickhill Priory Church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 625536 5921821
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.43047, -1.11047
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 25′ 49.69″ N, 1° 6′ 37.69″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: letters
Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century
Notes: The font stands now under a modern canopy, the work of G.G. Pace [George Pace, 1915-1975]
REFERENCES
- Armitage, Ella S., A key to English antiquities with special reference to the Sheffield and Rotherham disctrict, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1905, p. 295
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 231
- Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962, ix, 161 and pl. 58
- Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 411, 412
- Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 193
- Harman, Ruth, Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017, p. 671
- Hunter, Joseph, South Yorkshire, Wakefield: EP Publishing for Sheffield City Libraries, 1974 c1828-1931, vol. 1: p. 240 and ill. on p. opp. 239
- Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976, p. 148
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941, p. 393
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 509
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967, p. 520, 649