Farlington nr. York / Fornetorp

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view of basin

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

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Leonard's, Farlington. Stone built Norman church with a plain north doorway. Some Victorian restoration and additions including the bellcote, porch etc."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2010 by Gordon Hatton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1935283] [accessed 21 June 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Leonard's Farlington - interior. This Norman church has a simple layout of nave and chancel all in one. Triple light Norman window at the east end."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2010 by Gordon Hatton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1935299] [accessed 21 June 2018]

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view of font and cover in context

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

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 26 May 2004)

INFORMATION

FontID: 09805FAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard

Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard

Church Location: Farlington, York YO61 1NW, UK

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off (E) of the B1363, 20 km N of York

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Bulford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, N side, oposite the entrance

Century and Period: 13th - 16th century[altered?], Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com for the photograph of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Farlington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE6167/farlington/] [accessed 21 June 2018], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The entry for the parish of Sheriff Hutton in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes about Farlington St Leonard's: "The church is substantially a 12th-century structure, only altered by the addition of buttresses and windows of various dates. It has undergone extensive restoration in modern times [...] The font has an octagonal bowl resting on a circular shaft and is probably of 13th-century date." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SE6147867488] reports an "octagonal font with concave sides on circular column" in it. Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with rounded underbowl raised on an octagonal pedestal; the outer surfaces are plain and may have been re-tooled; the font appears medieval. Flat and plain wooden cover; modern. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original (?) 12th-century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.09973, -1.061344

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 5′ 59.03″ N, 1° 3′ 40.84″ W

UTM: 30U 626767 5996355

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and plain

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-12-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.