Sneaton / Sneton

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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases

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design element - motifs - chevron or zigzag

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design element - motifs - spiral

Scene Description: could they really be St Hilda's serpents? [cf. FontNotes]

symbol - cross - in a circle

symbol - star - in a circle

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: FONT digital photograph taken 11 June 2009 by jmc4 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/5436378279/] [accessed 20 January 2020] FONT TWOMEY digital image in https://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/frag/images/9772151.0007.006-00000006.jpg [accessed 20 January 2020 -- wait for Twomey to send her pics or permit

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nigel Coates, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2010 by Nigel Coates [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Hildas_Church_Sneaton_1_(Nigel_Coates).jpg] [accessed 20 January 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09702SNE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John [orig. St. Hilda]
Church Patron Saints: St. John [originally dedicated to St. Hilda]
Church Location: Beacon Way, Sneaton, Whitby YO22 5HS, UK
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B1416, S of the A171, 5 km SW of Whitby
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Dic / Liberty of Whitby
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, by the S doorway
Date: ca. 1100?
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [re-tooled], Norman [altered]
There is a multiple-place entry for Sneaton in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/NZ8907/sneaton/] [accessed 20 January 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Bulmer's Directory of 1890 (p. 1122) reports: "The font bears the date 1100", presumably in an inscription, but no other information is given about it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes: "The church of ST. HILDA was completely rebuilt in 1823 by James Wilson of Sneaton Castle. The present structure is a poor example of the style which passed for Gothic in the early 19th century [...] The font, a survival from the old building, is a massive square bowl of early 12th-century date, with attached shafts at the angles. The faces are ornamented with cheverons and volutes rudely incised in the stone. There is some reason to suppose that the latter form of ornament, of which there are several instances in the neighbourhood of Whitby, is a representation of St. Hilda's serpents." The ScarboroughToday web site [www2.scarboroughtoday.co.uk/tourism/guide.heml] informs that inside the 1823 church [i.e., rebuilt in 1823]. "is a well-preserved font which was hewn from a great block of stone by the Normans and has carvings of zigzags, star patterns, spirals and crosses in circles." Pevsner (1985) note however: "Font. Square, with Norman angle columns, but all the rest so re-carved that not an original stroke remains." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: NZ8940007870] notes: "Church. 1823-25, altered probably c.1910. [...] Square font, restored 1845, of which only the angle shafts with scalloped capitals are unrestored."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.4582, -0.622
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 27′ 29.52″ N, 0° 37′ 19.2″ W
UTM: 30U 654146 6037107

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: modern lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain, with ring handle; modern; fits on top of wooden frame that sits on the upper rim of the font

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2020-01-20 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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the North Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985 c1966