Masham / Massam / Massan / Masseham / Mesham

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Scene Description: Source caption: "9th Century Anglo-Saxon Cross Shaft, St Mary's the Virgin Church, Masham. View from the west."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2018 by Rosser1954 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anglo-Saxon_Cross_Shaft,_St_Mary's_the_Virgin_Church,_Masham._View_from_the_west.jpg] [accessed 26 November 2019]

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - cross - fragment

Scene Description: Source caption: "9th Century Anglo-Saxon Cross Shaft, St Mary's the Virgin Church, Masham. View from the south-west."

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - cross - fragment

Scene Description: Source caption: "9th Century Anglo-Saxon Cross Shaft, St Mary's the Virgin Church, Masham. View looking south."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 July 2018 by Rosser1954 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anglo-Saxon_cross_shaft,_St_Mary_the_Virgin,_Masham,_North_Yorkshire.jpg] [accessed 26 November 2019]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2018 by Rosser1954 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary_the_Virgin_Church,_Masham._View_from_the_south.jpg] [accessed 26 November 2019]

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view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's Church west door. Norman doorway at the base of the tower"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 November 2007 by Gordon Hatton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/614362] [accessed 26 November 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 April 2017 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5371133] [accessed 26 November 2019]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the modern font partially visible at the far end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2014 by David Dixon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4059184] [accessed 26 November 2019]

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Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2011 by Maigheach-gheal [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2467555] [accessed 26 November 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09593MAS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 42 Market Pl, Masham, Ripon HG4 4EF, UK -- Tel.: +44 1765 689255

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A6108, 9 km SSW of Bedale, on the W bank of the Ure river, 16 km NW of Ripon

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leeds

Historical Region: Hundred of Land of Count Alan -- formerly Richmondshire

Font Location in Church: [reported in a cow shed ca. 1890]

Century and Period: 10th - 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Early Norman?

Church Notes: Glynne (in Butler, 2007) notes: "In the churchyard is part of an ancient cross, sculptured with Norman arches and various figure, among which baptism may be decyphered." Also noted in the VCH (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914): "There are a good many mediaeval gravestones preserved, and part of the head and shaft of a good cross of Anglian style, perhaps 9th-century work; but the most interesting carved stone is the round shaft standing in the churchyard by the south porch, richly carved in four stages with figures under roundheaded arcades, but the carving is now almost obliterated. In the top stage were probably represented our Lord and the Apostles; one or two of the others appear to represent baptisms."

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There is an entry [multiple-place] for Masham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE2280/masham/] [accessed 26 November 2019]; it reports a church in it. Glynne's 19 April 1842 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font modern". Bulmer's Directory of 1890 states that the font at this church is modern and that "the old one was discovered a few years ago in a cow-house, where it had been sacrilegiously converted into a urinal" [NB: the present whereabouts of this old font are not reported]. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 1, 1914) notes: "The church of Masham is mentioned in 1086 [...] he fine west tower dates from c. 1150, but seems to be built against the west wall of an older aisleless nave, perhaps of c. 1100 [...] The chancel of this church has disappeared. The transepts were probably the first additions to be made, at some time in the 13th century or perhaps late in the 12th"; it reports the font as modern, without reference to an earlier one. Pevsner (1985) mentions neither font in his entry for this church. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE2267480670] notes; "Church. C12, late C14, C16 and C19"; it mentions no font in it.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.2213, -1.6537

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 13′ 16.68″ N, 1° 39′ 13.32″ W

UTM: 30U 587778 6008981

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-11-12 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Bulmer, T., History, Topography, and Directory of North Yorkshire, Comprising its Ancient and Modern History; [...], Preston: T. Bulmer & Co. (T. Snape & Co. Printers), 1890

Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007