Newcastle upon Tyne No. 3 / Byker?

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2013 by Mike Quinn [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3752759] [accessed 16 July 2019]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 March 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by Steve [http://newcastlephotos.blogspot.com/] [accessed 7 February 2010]

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symbol - shield - blank - 7

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symbol - shield - coat of arms - Bates family

Scene Description: this coat of arms is not visible now [March 2010] [cf. Font notes]

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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 northeast

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view of font cover - detail

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view of font cover - detail

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 March 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of font cover - detail

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 March 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Steve [http://newcastlephotos.blogspot.com/] [accessed 7 February 2010]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 09866NEW

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Date: ca. 1689?

Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Restoration

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: other such fonts at St. Nicholas' and All Saints' [now at Kirkharle], both in Newcastle as well

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist

Church Notes: original church late-13thC?

Church Address: Grainger St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 5JG, UK -- Tel.: +44 191 232 0483

Site Location: Tyne and Wear, North East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off (E) Grainger St., between St John St [N] and the A186 (S), about 200 yds W of the Cathedral, N of the river [NB: 'Byker', a church district -in which St. John's is located- was created out of Alls Saints' in 1844]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle

Historical Region: formerly Northumberland

Additional Comments: damaged font / vandalised font / restored font? [cf. FontNotes] -- disappeared font? (the one from the original late-13thC church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

No individual antry found for Newcastle in the Domesday survey. The Historical account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1827) notes: "The font [...] formerly stood in the west porch, where the cover is still suspended. It now now stands in the south cross. Bourne, quoting the Milbank MS, says: 'In the year 1639, when the Scots sought to deface the ancient monuments, and said they were paistry, and superstition, they began with the spoon [i.e., basin] of this church's font, and broke it all to pieces. It had been given by one John Bertram. For there was written about it; "For the honour of God and St. John, John Bertram gave this font stone." Cuthbert Maxwell, a mason, observing the barbarity of the Scots, came in haste to St. Nicholas, and saved the spoon [cf. supra] of that font in its vestry, and also that of All-hallows. He lived, after the king return'd, to set them up again.' The present font has probably been the gift of Andrew Bates, A.M. appointed lecturer of this church in the year 1689, as there is a shield on it with the arms of that ancient family." Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "an ancient font" in this church. Gibson (1848) mentions that the font from St. John's Newcastle, destroyed by the Scots, had probably been the gift of Helen, Lady of Bothal [towards the end of the 14th century]. The font cover is noted in Long (1923). Pevsner (1957) notes both the font and its cover as 17th-century, "the cover tall and bristling with canopies and pinnacles". Betjeman (1958) mentions a "font cover [of the] 15th century". An unknown / untitled source of the Durham County Council records the font at St. Newcastle John's as one of "a series of similar black marble fonts of 15th century date" (others mentioned are those of St. Nicholas' and All Saints' [now at Kirkharle], both in Newcastle, and adds that theu may have come from the same workshop) [source: www.durham.gov.uk/durhamcc/usp.nsf/lookup/[...]]. [NB: it is not clear from the latter source whether the font restored by Maxwell and the present font are one and the same and, if not, what happened to the restored font?]. The font cover is illustrated in Howard & Crossley (1919). The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: NZ2470064012] notes: "Parish church. Mostly C14 and C15; chancel largely rebuilt 1848. [...] C17 octagonal stone font with shields on sides; wood cover in C15 style."

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve, of http://newcastlephotos.blogspot.com/, and to Janice Tostevin, for their photographs of this font and cover

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 588627 6092341

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.9701, -1.6155

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 58′ 12.36″ N, 1° 36′ 55.8″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (black)

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: yes; pulley

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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. 297
Gibson, William Sidney, Descriptive and historical notices of some remarkable Northumbrian castles, churches, and antiquities: in a series of visits […] First series, London; Newcastle-upon-Tyne: William Pickering; Robert Robinson, 1848, p. 135
Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919, ill. on p. 334
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51171] [accessed 21 February 2007]
Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; p. 65
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northumberland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1957, p. 232