Sleights
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Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 August 2005)
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B01: symbol - cross - fleurdelysée
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BBU01: inscription
Scene Description: [cf. Inscription Area]
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LB01: design element - architectural - column - 4
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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding
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view of basin - interior
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Image Source: Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of font and cover
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view of font in context
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Image Source: Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 13 August 2005)
INFORMATION
FontID: 10993SLE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist
Country Name: England
Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located on the A169, 5-6 km SW of Whitby
Century and Period: 19th century, Victorian
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of this font.
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font probably of the 19th century; the hemispherical basin has an inscription containing a Biblical text used in the liturgy of baptism [cf. Inscription area below] carved all around the upper side; the basin has a fleur-de-lisés cross inscribed on the front side; the base is made of four colonnettes with moulded capitals and bases, atached to a central shaft, all of it on an octagonal lower base and a semicircular plinth; wooden cover decorated with metal, also modern; the inner well of the basin is round, lead-lined and has a central drain hole. [We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of the GENUKI web site, for the photograph of this font]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: English
Inscription Notes: [full transcription not available]
Inscription Location: around the upper basin side
Inscription Text: "[suffer?] LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME [...]"
Inscription Source: Image area
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]