Ripon No. 2
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Image Source: Drawing in Fawcett (1844)
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Chapel of St Anne's Hospital, Ripon"
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05682RIP
Church/Chapel: Hospital of St. Anne or Maison de Dieu [ruins]
Church Patron Saints: St. Anne?
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire [formerly West Yorkshire], Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Ripon is located about 50 km N of Leeds, about 18 km N of Harrowgate. [the ruins of the chapel are located in High St., Ripon]
Historical Region: formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Font Location in Church: In the ruins [ca. 1844]
Century and Period: 15th century (?), Perpendicular
Fawcett (1844) shows a lithograph of a font (or stoup?) standing under an arch in the ruins of the "Maison de Dieu", Ripon; the basin itself is tall and shaped like a half-egg, whereas the base is square and totally unsuited to it [NB: a later photograph shows the basin as octagonal with shields on the sides. Morris (1934) notes that the old hospital "was rebuilt in 1869, but the ruined chapel remains", and adds that "the font is now used as a flower pot." Morris (ibid.) notes that "the building is thought to be of the 15th century". The entry for this site in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE3146071009] dates the remains tro the 14th century and mentions both a piscina and a stoup in it.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
54.13393,
-1.5198
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
54° 8′ 2.15″ N,
1° 31′ 11.28″ W
UTM: 30U 596711 5999435
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Fawcett, Joshua, Churches of Yorkshire, Leeds: T.W. Green, 1844
Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932
