Askham No. 1
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view of font - upper view
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view of font
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view of font
Scene Description: the 1661 font
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view of font
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view of basin
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view of basin - interior
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inscription
Scene Description: 1661
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symbol - shield
Scene Description: with the date inscribed in it
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view of basin - detail
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the 1661 font
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view of font in context
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11034ASK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1661
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(mid), Restoration
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter [formerly St. Kentigern's?]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter [formerly St. Kentigern?]
Church Notes: a church dedicated to St. Kentigern existed here by 1240
Church Address: Askham, Cumbria CA10 2PD
Site Location: Cumbria, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located S of Penrith
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle
Historical Region: formerly North Westmorland
Additional Comments: recycled font: moved from the old church into the new 19th-century building -- disappeared font? (the one from the ca.1140-church here)
Font Notes:
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Curwen (1932) notes: "William de Romara, earl of Lincoln, granted to the canons of Wartre Priory inter alia the church and lands of Gamel the priest of Askham. The gift was confirmed to the canons by Pope Innocent 11 on 15 September, 1140, and by Pope Innocent IV in the year 1245." [De Romara [aka Romare, Roumare, Romay, Romayre] b. ca. 1096]. The church is valued in the ""Antique Taxatio Ecclesiastica" of Pope Nicholas IV, made in 1291". Noble (1904) refers to a document in the Records Office that mentions "St. Kentigern of Askham" in connection with the Priory of Wartre, in Yorkshire, to which it must have been connected since in 1375 a Henry de Holme, canon of the Priory of Wartre, was also vicar of Askham; Noble (ibid.) further writes of a visit and description of this church by Bishop Nicholson in 1704 that reported "a convenient font" in this church; although no details of the font were given, it was probably the 1661 font here [cf. infra]. An earlier font must have existed at the time of the first recorded baptism in this church, on 19 June 1566, "was Jane Collinsonne christened". Pevsner (1967) notes: "Fonts. One plain, and dated 1661.-- The other plainly panelled, with no separate foot. Can this be c.1832?". The Visit Cumbria site [www.visitcumbria.com] informs that "the south transept, which was originally the Sandford family burial chapel (1225), was rebuilt on the ground plan of the old church. In 1950 the Stanford Chapel was dedicated as a Baptistry, containing the 17th Century font from the old church." The present font consists of a small square-to-octagonal basin decorated with the date '1661' inscribed in a shield on the side; raised on a pedestal base of two blocks, the lower block octagonal-to-square. [cf. Index entry for Askahm No. 2 for the later font in this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Matthew Philip Hicks Emmott, of Cumbrian Churches [http://cumbrianchurches.blogspot.ca] and to Andy Eccles for their photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 516315 6051136
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.607414, -2.747418
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 36′ 26.69″ N, 2° 44′ 50.71″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square-to-octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: on the side of the basin
Inscription Text: "1661"
Inscription Source: [cf. FonrNotes & ImagesArea
REFERENCES
- Noble, Mary E., The registers of the parish of Askham, in the County of Westmoreland, from 1566 to 1812, London: Bemrose & Sons, 1904, p. vii, viii, [1]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cumberland and Westmorland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967, p. 222