Yeaveley
INFORMATION
Font ID: 08816YEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Church,_Yeaveley
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Site Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located E of the A515, 7-8 km S of Ashbourne
Additional Comments: recycled mortar?: MUST USE: installed in the church in the belief that it was a stoup [cf. FontNotes] -- is this the same font reported in Kelly (1881)?
Font Notes:
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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, p. 239
- Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, London: Kelly & Co., 1881, p. 1163