Watton nr. Driffield / Waton / Wattune
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CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding
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view of font
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view of font and cover in context
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view of basin - interior
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - looking east
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view of church interior - looking east
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view of base
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09817WAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 15th century, Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, centre aisle, W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Ln, Watton, Driffield YO25 9AQ, UK
Site Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A164, 10 km S of Driffield, 12 km N of Beverley
Historical Region: Hundred of Sneculfcros
Additional Comments: altered font? Square stem in 1857, but a later round one now
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for this Watton [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA0249/watton/] [accessed 10 October 2019], one of which, in the Land of Count Robert of Mortain, reports a church and a priest in it. Glynne's July 1857 visit to this church (in Butler, 2007) reports: "The font is large: the bowl a circular cup with mouldings around it, on a square stem." Baptismal font consisting of a hemispherical basin raised on a bulbous base of which it is separated by a thick roll moulding NB: [the square stem reported in 1857 by Glynne appears to have been replaced]. The font fits with types of between the 13th and 15th centuries. Modern oak cover.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 667793 5979182
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.9338, -0.444
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 56′ 1.68″ N, 0° 26′ 38.4″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Glynne, Stephen Richard, The Yorkshire notes of Sir Stephen Glynne (1825-1874), Woodbridge: The Boydell Press; Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2007, p. 426