Pickering No. 1
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04783PIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 9th - 10th century [re-cut], Pre-Conquest [altered?]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): God, St. Peter & St. Paul
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 30 km from Scarborough, in the wapentake of Pickering Lythe
Additional Comments: recycled font / damaged font: "was deliberately defaced (and so recorded in the registers) in 1644".
Font Notes:
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Noted in Glynne's 1842 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font is circular, with moulding around the base, and set on a cylinder of equal diameter." Home (1915) writes: "The font, which has been thought by some to be of Saxon origin, seems to be formed from part of the inverted base of a pillar, and though composed of old material, probably dates in its present form of a font from as recent a period as the restoration of Charles II [i.e., 1660+], the original font having been destroyed in Puritan times." Later in the same source Home (ibid.) notes that "the [parish] registers record the breaking up of the font", an entry which Holme quotes verbatim: "Baptisterii Pickerensis Demolitio, Septemb. 25, 1644". Described in Hutton (1957) as a baptismal font, "possibly Saxon, and was deliberately defaced (and so recorded in the registers) in 1644". Betjeman (1958) notes the 20th-century font cover by George G. Pace. [cf. Index entry for Pickering No. 2 for an old holy-water stoup in this church]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 20th century
Material: wood
Notes: by George G. Pace
REFERENCES
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 421
- Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 325
- Home, Gordon, The Evolution of an English town, being the story of the ancient town of Pickering [...], London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1915, p. 88, 134, 165 and ill. on p. 101 / [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15053/15053-h/15053-h.htm] [accessed 21 March 2009]
- Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976, p. 51