Howden / Houedene / Hovedene
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Image Source: illustration in Bond (1908)
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - 8 arches - Ogee arches - cusped
Scene Description: one on each side of the basin
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view of basin - interior
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design element - motifs - piping
Scene Description: on the angles of the octagonal underbowl and base
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view of church exterior - west view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 April 2013 by Chris Morgan [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3437447] [accessed 28 July 2014]
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view of church exterior - east view
Scene Description: in ruins since the Reformation?
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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design element - motifs - moulding
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05336HOW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated? / Early Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Minster Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Notes: English Heritage [Listing NGR: SE7478128253] (1987) notes: "Collegiate church including the Grammar School and attached chapter house.
Begun c1270-1275 with transepts. Nave finished c1300 with west front completed between 1306 and 1311. Choir, also often referred to as chancel, completed between 1320-1340. Chapter house begun 1340-49, and recommenced after a long intermission in 1380, with the addition in the early C15 of a ground-floor chapel or vestry and its vestibule, 2 chambers above and an access stair. Tower begun late C14, with upper stage of late C15. Grammar school c1500. Restored 1840's and 1850's. Restoration of chapter house underway at time of resurvey (1987)."
Church Address: 10 Vicar Lane, Howden, East Riding of Yorkshire DN14 7BS
Site Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located at the junction of the M18/A614 from Doncaster with the A63 from Selby, about 40 km ESE of York
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Howden
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here?)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Howden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SE7428/howden/] [accessed 28 July 2014], and it reports a priest and a church in it. A font here is described and illustrated in Bond (1908), who places it in the transition between the "homely form" of the early Ogee niches of fonts such as Dershingham, and the more accomplished and "tenanted" [i.e., with figures in them] examples at Hitchin, Fishlake, and other such fonts. Bond (ibid.) mentions that "one curious experiment at this time, by no means a success, is to curve inwardly the shafts of the pedestal", in reference to the rather odd, naked appearance of the stem of the Howden font, in contrast with the cusped Ogee arches on the basin (the stem of the base is plain except for the vertical round moldings that emphasize the arrises of the octagon. The inner well of the basin is round, lead-lined and has a central drain hole. The plinth is also octagonal and plain. The wooden font cover, though late of date, is of an ambitious height and decorated with some tracery.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of this font and cover.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 640641 5957312
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.745449, -0.867277
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 44′ 43.61″ N, 0° 52′ 2.2″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th - 20th century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: yes [counterweight?]
Notes: [cf. FootNotes]
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 231 and ill. on p. 237