Kirk Hammerton

******* GET PICS https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:St_John_the_Baptist,_Kirk_Hammerton https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5929335 https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/yorkshire/churches/kirk-hammerton.htm No entry found for Kirk Hammerton in the Domesday survey. The font here is noted dismissively in Glynne's 23 October 1867 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007): "The font is a debased one." Described in Bulmer's Directory... (1890): "The font is a good and large one of the time of Charles II". [i.e., 1630-1685] [NB: it is unlikely Glynne would have described in such terms the current font at St. John's -- was there another?]. The entry fir this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE4652555524] notes: "Church of St. John the Baptist. Cllth and possibly earlier, with alterations and additions early C13, 1834 and 1890-91 […] former Anglo-Saxon chancel and nave […] The east end of the south aisle (Anglo-Saxon chancel) has early English sedilia and piscina" [no font mentioned in the entry. The present [February 2007] font at Kirk Hammerton St. John's consists of an octagonal basin raised on eight outer colonnettes attached to a central shaft; the sides of the basin are decorated with deeply-carved panels framed with rosettes , and, inside, four of them contain angels holding charged shields, the other four with rosettes inscribed in quatrefoils; the oddity of the angel-holding-shield panels is that the motif on the shield is another angel holding a scroll [on at least one of the sides]; the underbowl chamfer is decorated with floral motifs; the capitals and bases of the support are moulded. The wooden cover is flat and round, with metal decoration and handle.