Old Malton No. 3 / Maaltun / Maltun / Maltune / Meauton / Old Mealton

INFORMATION

Font ID: 06069MAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Town Street, Old Malton, Yorkshire, YO17 7HB
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just NE of Norton, 2 km E of Malton [i.e., New Malton], 30-35 km ENE of York
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Maneshou -- Wapentake of Rydale
Additional Comments: lost fonts: sold at an auction ca. 1890; present whereabouts unknown
Font Notes:
There are four entries for [Old] Malton [rariant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE7972/old-malton/] [accessed 3 December 2019] one of which reports a church in it. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907: 229) as the third of three Norman fonts that disappeared from Old Malton: "About the same time [i.e., ca. 1890] 'Three old Church Fonts' were advertised for sale throughout the district on auctioneers' handbills, as part of the garden effects of a resident in Old Malton; the diocesan chancellor (the late Lord Grimthorpe) refused to interfere; all three were of Norman date." The present whereabouts of these three fonts are unknown. [cf. Index entry for Old Malton No. 4 for a view of the 19th-century font which replaced the three missing Norman vessels]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 645070 6001656
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.1425, -0.7791
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 8′ 33″ N, 0° 46′ 44.76″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 229