Yeaveley

INFORMATION

FontID: 08816YEA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located E of the A515, 7-8 km S of Ashbourne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1881 as a baptismal font of the time of Richard I [i.e., 1189+ ] "close to the chapel wall". Cox & Harvey (1907) write: "At Yeaveley, Derbs., a large farmyard mortar, for the braying of grain, etc., has actually been placed on a pedestal in the church" . C&H mention this in the context of a tendency to gather medieval mortars and the like in the churches in the mistaken belief that they were liturgical objects. This same caveat is reiterated by Bond and others. [cf. Index entry for a font at Stydd, near Yeaveley, reported used as flower stand in 1865]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, London: Kelly & Co., 1881