Whitby No. 1 / Witebi

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coat of arms - 8

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - two-tiers - trefoiled arches

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design element - architectural - arch - cusped arch - 8

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design element - motifs - tracery

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symbol - shield - blank - 8

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view of church exterior in context

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view of font - southeast side

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view of font - southwest side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10994WHI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Hilda (C of E)

Church Patron Saints: St. Hilda [aka Hild, Hilde]

Church Location: 1889 Church Square, Whitby YO21 3EG, UK -- Tel.: +44 947 606578

Country Name: England

Location: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A171, in the West Cliff area, left bank of the Esk river, 32 km NW of Scarborough

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York

Historical Region: Hundred of Langbaurgh

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end

Date: ca. 1888?

Century and Period: 19th century (late?), Victorian

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of this font.

Church Notes: present church is 19thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (York North Riding, vol. 2, 1923) notes: "ST. HILDA'S Church, on the west cliff, was built in 1885 [...] dark marble carved font in the style of the 15th century." Pevsner (1985) notes: "Font. In the Perp[endicular] style, of dark grey marble." Baptismal font of dark-grey stone [Frosterly marble?] probably from the time of the building which was consecrated in 1888; it consists of an octagonal basin the sides of which are decorated with cusped pointed arches, each containing a charged shield, raised on an octagonal pedestal base decorated with two tiers of arches (up-and-down) and tracery; the splaying lower base is decorated with plain shields. The whole is raised on a three-step plinth.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.48876, -0.6211

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 29′ 19.54″ N, 0° 37′ 15.96″ W

UTM: 30U 654089 6040508

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble [Frosterly marble?]

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2020-01-20 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the North Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985 c1966