Rowley nr. Little Weighton

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: re-carved?

Image Source: photograph in Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/photo.htm?photo=3179] [accessed 25 January 2015]

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symbol - cross - Greek - in a circle

Scene Description: re-carved?

Image Source: photograph in Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/photo.htm?photo=3179] [accessed 25 January 2015]

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: modern font? / re-carved?

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 April 2008 by David Wright [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/757079] [accessed 25 January 2015]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Saint Peter's Church, Rowley. A fine old church which once served the village of Rowley, which no longer exists. In the early 1600's, King Charles issued the 'Book of Sports' which gave authority for the 'common people' to practice certain sports and other leisure activities on the Sabbath after they had attended church services. As they worked on all the other six days of the week, this was their only opportunity! But this offended those who took the Sabbath as being 'sacrosant'. Thus the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers persuaded the villagers to emigrate en masse in 1638 and they founded the town of Rowley which is now a suburb of Ipswich, Massachusetts."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2007 by George Robinson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/452666] [accessed 25 January 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: modern font [note the damage to the upper rim]

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: modern font? / re-carved?

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09407ROW

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Rowley (Little Weighton), East Yorkshire, HU20 3XR

Country Name: England

Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A164, 7 km ENE of South Cave, 8 km SW of Beverley, about 16 km WNW of Hull [NB: the medieval village of Rowley no longer exists]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Harthill

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century (early?) [re-carved?], Early English [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, and to David Ross, of www.britainexpress.com for their photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Moule (1837) reports a medieval font in this church: "the font is square, and very ancient". Described in Hall (1892): "The font, which is one of the finest in the district, is of the Early English period." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SE9764732619] (1968) reports an "Early C13 font: tapering square base the sides ornamented with blank arcading (pointed arches) on central cylindrical column flanked by 4 corner colonettes with annuli." David Ross [www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=4633] [accessed 25 January 2015] writes: "The font is also 13th century, though it was originally at St Nicholas church in Beverley. It was found in a stonemason's yard in Beverley by Reverend Robert Croft in 1800 and purchased for Rowley church." The present font at Rowley St Peter's appears re-carved? It consists of a square basin with tapering sides decorated with an arcade, though the side facing east has also an inscribed Greek cross; raised on a central shaft and four outer colonnettes. [NB: it appears to have had a rough life, with at least two of the upper corners of the basin damaged and repaired; major re-cut].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.780768, -0.520145

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 46′ 50.77″ N, 0° 31′ 12.52″ W

UTM: 30U 663391 5961984

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: plain, round and flat, with moulded edges; turned handle/finial; modern

REFERENCES

Hall, John George, A History of South Cave, and of Other Parishes in the East Riding of the County of York, Hull: Edwin Ombler, 1892

Moule, Thomas, The English counties delineated; or, A topographical description of England [...], London: George Virtue, 1837 [vol. 2]