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view of font
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view of basin - interior
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view of basin
Scene Description: notice the damage to the upper rim area
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - looking west
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view of font cover
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design element - motifs - moulding
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09853CRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1490?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?), Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Cuthbert
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cuthbert [aka Cubertus]
Church Address: Church Hill, Crayke, North Yorkshire YO61 4TA
Site Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A19, 3 km ENE of Easingwold
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York [until 1844 Diocese of Durham?]
Historical Region: Hundred of Yarlestre -- formerly in StocKton Ward, Durham
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time or much earlier (8thC?) church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Crayke [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SE5670/crayke/] [accessed 14 May 2018]; it mentions a priest and a church in it. Sheahan & Whellan (1857) write: ''The font is plain octagonal bowl on a plain shaft and base''. The National Gazetteer of 1868 notes a font in this church [source: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Crayke/Crayke68.html] [accessed 13 August 2007]. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes: "A church was probably founded at Crayke by the bishops in AngloSaxon times, and it is unlikely that it did not exist in the days of Etha, the anchorite of the 8th century. [...] In 1086 Crayke had a church and a priest [...] The church seems to have been rebuilt in the 15th century. [...] The font is also 15th-century work and has an octagonal bowl and stem with a moulded base and a wooden cover of the 17th century." Morris (1931) and Betjeman (1958) mention a font cover of the 17th century, but make no mention of the font. The Parish web page [http://www.crayke.org.uk/cuthbert.cfm] [accessed 13 August 2007] notes: "the pews and font cover are from the 17th century. The font may be as old as the church itself" [i.e., ca. 1490]. The font consists of an octagonal basin of plain sides that round at the underbowl, raised on a moulded octagonal pedestal base with a splayong lower base; on an rectangular plinth. The font cover consists of an octagonal platform on which is a the usual Jacobran-style ribs-around-a-pivot supporting a pointed finial. There is damage to the upper rim of the basin consistent with the forceful removal of the old cover staples. There is no mention of any font in Pevsner (1966).
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 621271 5999433
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.1287, -1.1441
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 7′ 43.32″ N, 1° 8′ 38.76″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868, [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Crayke/Crayke68.html] [accessed 13 August 2007]
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 415
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The North Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1931, p. 131
- Whellan & Co., T., History and topography of the city of York and the North Riding of Yorkshire, embracing a […], Beverley: printed for the publishers by John Green, Market Place, 1859, p. 597