York No. 2 / Eboracum / Eburacum / Eburākon / Eoforwic / Everwic / Jórvík
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Scene Description: Minster museum: tomb of Walter de Grey, archbishop of York ca. 1200
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Scene Description: Minster museum: portable font?
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Scene Description: Minster museum: bishop staff
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Scene Description: Minster museum: tomb of Walter de Grey, archbishop of York ca. 1200
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Scene Description: Minster museum: tomb of Walter de Grey, archbishop of York ca. 1200
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Scene Description: seen from Low Petergate
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andy Barrett, 2003
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Scene Description: the 'Doomstone' in the crypt: said to be from the Norman building here
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Scene Description: the 'Doomstone' in the crypt: said to be from the Norman building here
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Scene Description: the 'Doomstone' in the crypt: said to be from the Norman building here
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Scene Description: the 'Doomstone' in the crypt: said to be from the Norman building here
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the mid-15th century font and mid-20th century cover inside the crypt
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Scene Description: north aisle, towards the east end
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view of church interior - nave - west end
Scene Description: the King's Creen and the organ
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Scene Description: note the old font-cover anchor above the fourth arch from the right
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Scene Description: in the crypt now, on a shelf of the west wall, next to the font; not known whether a stoup or other
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information
![the latest baptismal font in the Minster: designed by Charles Gurrey [www.charlesgurrey.com], sponsored by The Friends of York Minster](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1130714012_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the latest baptismal font in the Minster: designed by Charles Gurrey [www.charlesgurrey.com], sponsored by The Friends of York Minster
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05711YOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (mid?), Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: York Minster / Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of St Peter [originally from the Vicars Choral in Bedern]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the crypt
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: "The first recorded church on the site was a wooden structure built hurriedly in 627 to provide a place to baptise Edwin, King of Northumbria. Moves toward a more substantial building began in the 630s. A stone structure was completed in 637 by Oswald and was dedicated to Saint Peter. The church soon fell into disrepair and was dilapidated by 670 when Saint Wilfrid ascended to the see of York. He repaired and renewed the structure. The attached school and library were established and by the 8th century were some of the most substantial in Northern Europe.[...] The church was damaged in 1069 during William the Conqueror's harrying of the North, but the first Norman archbishop, Thomas of Bayeux, arriving in 1070, organised repairs. The Danes destroyed the church in 1075, but it was again rebuilt from 1080. Built in the Norman style, it was 111 m (364.173 ft) long and rendered in white and red lines. The new structure was damaged by fire in 1137 but was soon repaired. The choir and crypt were remodelled in 1154, and a new chapel was built, all in the Norman style." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_Minster
In 741 the church was destroyed in a fire. It was rebuilt as a more impressive structure containing thirty altars. The church and the entire area then passed through the hands of numerous invaders, and its history is obscure until the 10th century.
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Additional Comments: disappeared font: two lost fonts from the Minster: one medieval, the other existed during the 17th century but disappeared as well -- re-cycled font: the 15thC in the crypt was originally in Bedern
Font Notes:
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Bond (1908) describes the former anchor of the old font cover: "In York Minster [...] there still remains high up in the centre of the nave on the north side a medieval dragon-head in wood from which was suspended the chain which led the font cover." No mention of the font is made in Bond. [NB: the location of this dragon-head shaped anchor or bracket up in the clerestory, above the north aisle arcade would implies that the font would have been located directly below, a somewhat doubtful location for a baptismal font]. Brown (2003) mentions a medieval font here which "disappeared without a trace", as well as a later, 17th-century font that "had been positioned under the seventh bay of the south nave arcade"; the latter font "had disappeared by 1735, perhaps as a result of the repaving of the nave". The web site of the city of York [www.welcometoyork.co.uk] informs that the actual font is "mid-15th century" and that it "came from the chapel of the Vicars Choral in Bedern. Its cover, designed by Sir Ninian Comper in 1947". This same source states that "this is the only font in the Minster" [NB: not entirely true since there is also a recent font of modernistic design at the west end of the south aisle]. On-site notes: the mid-15th century font and Comper's 1947 gilded cover are located in the crypt; the font consists of an octagonal basin on a round pedestal base and a square lower base; the inner well has a centre drain; the basin is not lined; the cover by Comper is beautifully painted on the inside with images of several saints: Ethelburga, Edwin, Paulinus, Hilda and James, and coats of arms on the outside; also on the outside, around the top, is a painted inscription.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 625835 5980991
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.961944, -1.081944
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 57′ 43″ N, 1° 4′ 55″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (inside rim): 52 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 56 cm*
Basin Depth: 15 cm
Basin Total Height: 26-27 cm*
Height of Base: 72 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 98 cm*
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site *[NB: the position of the font and the cover on it makes taking the upper measurements difficult -- measurements here are approximate]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1947
Material: wood
Apparatus: no; rim-buffet type
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 299 and ill. on p. 295
- Brown, Sarah, Our Magnificent Fabrick, York Minster: an Architectural History, c1220-1500, London: English Heritage, 2003, p. 123