Bilton in Ainsty

Image copyright © The British Academy & Rita Wood (photographers: John McElheran and Gerry Fountain), 1995

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view of basin

Scene Description: notice the extent of the damage and the remaining metal staple from the old cover locking mechanism

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Rita Wood (photographers: John McElheran and Gerry Fountain), 1995

Image Source: photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/yw/bilto/index.htm] [accessed 28 October 2008]

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the basin would had a lead lining, as the marks around and inside indicate

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Rita Wood (photographers: John McElheran and Gerry Fountain), 1995

Image Source: photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/yw/bilto/index.htm] [accessed 28 October 2008]

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view of basin - upper view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Rita Wood (photographers: John McElheran and Gerry Fountain), 1995

Image Source: photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/yw/bilto/index.htm] [accessed 28 October 2008]

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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mtaylor848, 2013

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 12 June 2013 by Mtaylor848 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Helen's_Church,_Bilton-in-Ainsty_(12th_June_2013)_003.JPG] [accessed 29 October 2019]

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view of church exterior - west façade

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mtaylor848, 2013

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 12 June 2013 by Mtaylor848 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Helen's_Church,_Bilton-in-Ainsty_(12th_June_2013)_007.JPG] [accessed 29 October 2019]

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view of church interior - sculpture

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Keith Jones & The Sheela Na Gig Project, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph by Keith Jones in The Sheela Na Gig Project [http://www.sheelanagig.org/wordpress/bilton-in-ainsty/#The_Figures] [accessed 30 October 2019]

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view of church interior - sculpture - Sheela Na Gig

Scene Description: Source caption: "The sheela nearest to the east wall has very broad shoulders, and haunches. Although it is claimed by Roberts ‘with her arms held on her abdomen’, her hands holds the lower part of the genitalia, which broadly occupy her trunk up to her neck.. The other is said to be ‘badly damaged hacked at, presumably because, the right arm and the hand held beneath it suggest a very patient posture.’ Although the head and shoulders are reasonably well defined, the damage to the lower half of the sculpture is so bad, it is difficult to determine any features."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Keith Jones & The Sheela Na Gig Project, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph by Keith Jones in The Sheela Na Gig Project [http://www.sheelanagig.org/wordpress/bilton-in-ainsty/#The_Figures] [accessed 30 October 2019]

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view of church interior - sculpture - siren

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Keith Jones & The Sheela Na Gig Project, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph by Keith Jones in The Sheela Na Gig Project [http://www.sheelanagig.org/wordpress/bilton-in-ainsty/#The_Figures] [accessed 30 October 2019]

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view of font

Scene Description: the upper end of the octagonal stem visible here

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Rita Wood (photographers: John McElheran and Gerry Fountain), 1995

Image Source: photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/yw/bilto/index.htm] [accessed 28 October 2008]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the basin of the font is partially visible in the foreground [west end], left side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008

Image Source: digitall photograph taken in 2008 by Colin Hinson [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ARY/Bilton/PhotoFrames/BiltonInAinstyInside] [accessed 30 October 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09607BIL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Church Location: 1 York Rd, Bilton-in-Ainsty, York YO26 7NL, UK
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off the B1224 [aka York Rd], 3 km W of Long Marston, about 15 km SW of York
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [basin only], Medieval / composite
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com for the photograph of this church
Noted in Glynne's visit of 23 January 1866 (in Butler, 2007): "The font is a plain cylinder." Described in Bulmer's Directory (1890): "The font also is the work of a very early period" [this description is made in Bulmer's in the context of the time period of Edward, the Confessor, therefore circa 1042-1066?]. Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2019): "Now at the back of the nave.This 'formerly stood in the Tockwith or south aisle' (Dixon, 22). It is plain, circular, bowl-shaped and set on later pillar and plinth. Diagonal tooling inside and out, with remnants of yellow ochre outside." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE4760550384] notes: "Church. C12 with C15 and C17 fenestration, and restoration 1869-71 by Sir G G Scott. [...] Carved stone remains include part of a Saxon cross against the west wall, an unweathered wrinkled face on a north window sill; 3 fragments of C10 Anglo-Danish crosses decorated with figures and interlace in the south chapel, and a fine monument of c1400 in the north chancel aisle depicting a woman with feet on a dog and hands holding a bird and wearing her hair in a plait held in place by a decorated band. The font is a large plain bowl on an octagonal stem".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.9471, -1.275
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 56′ 49.56″ N, 1° 16′ 30″ W
UTM: 30U 613211 5979014

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 7 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 66 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm*
Basin Depth: 23 cm*
Basin Total Height: 43 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2008)

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2008-10-28 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.