Ripon No. 1

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design element - motifs - lozenge

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Scene Description: on the sides of the lower base

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symbol - shield - blank

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ripon Cathedral. Minster church dedicated to St Wilfrid and an ecclesiastical site since AD672."

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: 'Interior of Ripon Cathedral"

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Marble Font, Ripon Cathedral, dating from the late 1400s"

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ripon Cathedral, Font"

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03282RIP

Church/Chapel: Cathedral church of St. Peter and St. Wilfrid

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter and St. Wilfrid

Church Location: Liberty Court House, Minster Rd, Ripon HG4 1QT, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1765 603462

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire [formerly West Yorkshire], Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Ripon is located off (W) the A61, about about 18 km N of Harrowgate, 50 km N of Leeds

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, S aisle

Century and Period: 15th century, Tudor

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: Catterick, Richmond and South Kilvington (N. Yorkshire), and Beverley St Mary's (E. Yorkshire)

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Morris (1932): "Octagonal font, with concave sides -- probably Perp[endicular]. It is of the type of those at Cattarick, S. Kilvington, and Richmond, in the N. Riding, and of St. Mary's, Beverley, in the E." Mee (1941) notes "a 15th century font in a fine setting." Pevsner (1986 c1967) writes: "Font, of blue marble, octagonal, Perp[endicular]; concave sides with shields and lozenges." Chalice-shaped octagonal font in black marble (?) with heraldic ornamentation on the basin sides and lower base, of a type repeated in North Yorkshire [cf. Cognate fonts], probably all from the same workshop. [cf. Index entry for Ripon No. 3 for an earlier font in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.134722, -1.52

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 8′ 5″ N, 1° 31′ 12″ W

UTM: 30U 596696 5999523

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (black)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and plain, with knob handle

REFERENCES

Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941

Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967

Wilkinson, W. E., Pictorial History of Ripon Cathedral (a Pitkin guide), London: Pitkin Pictorials, [s.d.]