Skirlaugh / Schireslai / Skirlaw / South Skirlaugh

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view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken in July 2004 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.coml]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Augustine's Church, Skirlaugh. Built in around 1400 in the style of a college chapel for Walter Skirlaw, bishop of Durham, who was born in Skirlaugh and died in 1406."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2007 by Paul Glazzard [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/551356] [accessed 31 October 2019]

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view of church interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken in July 2004 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.coml]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2005 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4358493] [accessed 31 October 2019]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the font is visible at the far end of the centre aisle

Image Source: igital image of an engraving by W. Bevan, from Architectural, historical, and picturesque Illustrations of the Chapel of St. Augustine, Skirlaugh, Yorkshire (1855) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skirlaugh_Chapel_Bevan.jpg]

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view of church interior - plan

Scene Description: notice the position of the font [G] in the chancel, just west of the communion railing

Image Source: Image taken 25 November 2013 from page 37 of 'Architectural, historical and picturesque illustrations of the Chapel of St. Augustine, Skirlaugh, Yorkshire, edited by an Hon. Member of the Yorkshire Architectural Society (G. A. Poole). With ... engravings, etc' [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:37_of_'Architectural,_historical_and_picturesque_illustrations_of_the_Chapel_of_St._Augustine,_Skirlaugh,_Yorkshire,_edited_by_an_Hon._Member_of_the_Yorkshire_Architectural_Society_(G._A._Poole)._With_..._engravings,_etc'_(11046336176).jpg] [accessed 31 October 2019]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken in July 2004 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.coml]

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view of font and cover in context - northeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken in July 2004 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.coml]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10071SKI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Augustine

Church Patron Saints: St. Augustine of Hippo

Church Location: Main St [formerly Church Ln]

Country Name: England

Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located on the A165, N of Swine, 10-12 km NNE of Hull

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, SW corner of the nave, opposite the organ

Century and Period: 15th century? [re-tooled?], Medieval [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson for the photographs of the modern font here

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is a multiple-place entry for [North] Skirlaugh [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TA1439/north-skirlaugh/] [accessed 31 October 2019]; it mentions a priest and a church in it. The Victoria County History (York East Riding, vol. 7, 2002) has an entry for South Skirlaugh, which became "Skirlaugh civil parish in 1935" [...] Parishioners of Swine living at North and South Skirlaugh, Arnold, and Rowton were served by the 14th century in South Skirlaugh chapel, [...] sometimes erroneously described as in North Skirlaugh [...] Similar in plan to a college chapel, the nave, chancel, and vestry were built for Walter Skirlaw (d. 1406), bishop of Durham. [...] The church was [...] restored in the late 19th century [...] Restoration work in the later 20th century"; no font mentioned in the VCH entry. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TA1417539705] notes: "Church. c1401. For Bishop Skirlaw with later additions and alterations. [...] C19 octagonal font." The baptismal font in this church -much like everything else in it- may have been the object of drastic 19th-century re-vamping; the font appears now totally plain and it consists of an octagonal basin the sides of which curve at the underbowl, raised on a plain octagonal pedestal and a slightly wider lower base, also octagonal and plain. The basin well is cylindrical and lead-lined, with a central drain. The flat wooden cover is modern and has metal ornamentation and handle. There appear to be traces on the upper rim which suggest that this font could be from the period and style of the original church, the Perpendicular, but may have been heavily re-tooled [cf. supra].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.8414, -0.265

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 50′ 29.04″ N, 0° 15′ 54″ W

UTM: 30U 679938 5969345

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-10-31 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.