Grindale No. 2 / Grindall

Standing permission

Results: 7 records

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view of basin

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of basin - interior

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of basin - north side

view of basin's top

view of font in context

Scene Description: the old fragment in the foreground, S of the Norman font

view of font in context - southeast side

Scene Description: the old fragment is located just S of the Norman font

INFORMATION

FontID: 10069GRI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas [originally from Argam's St. John the Baptist's]

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Country Name: England

Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located 6 km NW of Bridlington [Argam is located 9 km NW of Bridlington, on the old road to Malton]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, NW corner of the nave, to the S of the Norman font

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of this object. We are also grateful to Rita Wood for her note on these fragments at Copmanthorpe, Argam and Hunmanby.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

By the side of the Norman font at this church [cf. Index entry for Grindale No. 1] is the fragment of an old basin, probably from a medieval baptismal font; the object is so eroded that it is hard to deduce its original form from the remaining fragment, perhaps hemispherical or polygonal on the outside, with a round inner well that appears to be without a drain. This is probably the "part of a font" that Bulmer (1892) reported as being in the churchyard, "supposed to be a relic of the ancient church of Argam" [NB: a fragment of a font at Argam is mentioned 'in passim' in a communication to BSI by Rita Wood]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: fragment

Basin Interior Shape: round