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B01: design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: on the modern font of 1852

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

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R01: design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: the modern font of 1852

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the modern font of 1852

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view of church exterior - north view

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the modern font in the centre of the nave

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view of font

Scene Description: the font of 1773

Image Source: 1773 ink-wash-on-paper drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library Online Gallery [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/b/largeimage85864.html] [accessed 18 December 2011]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font of 1852

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font of 1852

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

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font of 1852

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

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09802BOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James [new church - the old building was a chapel of ease to Aldborough]

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Church Location: Church Lane, Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire, YO51 9NZ

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located on the B6265, near Aldborough, 10 km SE of Ripon, in the Harrowgate district, 20 km NW of York

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ripon & Leeds [formerly in the Diocese of Chester]

Historical Region: formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire

Font Location in Church: An older font was inside the church in 1773 [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of this church and modern font.

Church Notes: present church built in 1852; the old church stood in St. James' Square

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is a 1773 ink-wash-on-paper drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 15548 - Item number: f.31]. The font illustrated in Grimm consists of a polygonal [decagonal? / dodecagonal?] basin with moulded sides and bulbous underbowl, raised on a three-volume circular pedestal base; the two parts do not seem stylistically matched, and it is quite possible the basin was of a later date, given its shape; the original church is said to have dated from the Norman period [cf. infra]. The 'Penny cyclopaedia of the Society for the Dissusion of Knowledge' (vol. 5, 1836: 223) notes: "The chapel of ease is a perpetual curacy in the patronage of the vicar of Aldbotough, and in the diocese of Chester". The CRSBI (2008) reports: "St James's church dates from 1852. Its Romanesque material comprises a number of sculptured stones brought here from the demolished medieval church of the same name, which was located in what is now St James's Square in the centre of the town. The pieces have been reset in the N wall of the vestry. [...] Some of the carved stones have details of foliage, patterns and motifs, which place them in the Romanesque period, but one or two, if on their own, would give no such clear answer." Octagonal baptismal font probably of the 19th century, ca. 1852, the date of the church itself, although designed in the Decorated style; the upper rim is chamfered and splays slightly out to vertical sides decorated with low-relief tracery; there is no marked separation between sides and underbowl or stem; instead the lower basin side tapers in gently maintaining the octagonal shape to the lower base where it ends in two mouldings; the lower base itself is octagonal but every other side has a butress-like protrusion rendering the plant square. Flat wooden lid, likely of the same Victorian period. [NB: we have no information on the present whereabouts of the font of the earlier church, or of the original Norman font here].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 604767 5995278

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: polygonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal

Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century (mid)

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: the present cover is flat & octagonal, with metal decoration

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: 2011-12-18 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.